What we're doing
2025
Big Time In Brainerd
Northern Minnesota Robotics Championship
2025
On Thursday October 23, we met after school and loaded the trailer with our toolboxes, batteries, robot and robot cart. Once everything was loaded and secure we all piled into the suburban, bound for Brainerd and the NMRC Championship. 2hr and 25min latter we arrived at our hotel, The Lodge at Brainerd Lakes, by Wyndham. A well maintained rustic log cabin/out doors themed establishment complete with attached restaurant, arcade and water park. For supper the team took in the attached restaurant and had a fine meal and friendly service. Once every one had eaten, several team members went to enjoy the water park with passes that were included with our stay. The park was a Paul Bunyan themed water adventure. With two mammoth fast paced water slides, a meandering lazy river, an indoor-outdoor hot tub, a kids zone water play ground, a balance challenge and a concession stand. When The park closed for the night the team headed back to their respective rooms and rested up for another big day ahead.
Friday Came early with a pullout time of 7:30am our team got up and took in a complementary break fast with other NMRC teams at the hotel before heading off to the High School for a day of competition. Once we arrived at the school, we were guided to the rear of the building where we unloaded our trailer and headed in to find our pit are to set up for the days events. Our first match was match 4 with 3102 Tech-no- Tigers, and 8422 Husky Howlers. Our first match went well and our team and robot preformed admirably, until several rivets gave way and our main bucket and supporting bracket fell down and out of our robot close to the end of the match. After which we were able to repair the bracket and found and replaced other faulty rivets within our elevator before our next match. The rest of the matches went well giving us time to train in new drivers and to compete to the best of our ability. At the end of the qualification matches our team finished on the lower end of the rankings and then we didn't get picked for an alliance in the playoffs, but we did gain more experience and were able to compete with the robot we built. After alliance selection our team packed up the robot, batteries and toolboxes and loaded them into the trailer for the ride home. Half way home we stopped for supper at the Dairy Queen in walker, then loaded back into the suburban one more time making it to the school a short time later. Once back at school we unloaded the trailer and put everything back into the robotics room bringing to an end our big time in Brainerd.
Thank you to all our sponsors and supporters. With out you none of these experiences would be possible.
Check out our experiences at FRC Worlds in Houston Texas and The Minnesota State Robotics Championship at U of M in Minneapolis Minnesota. Under the Bog Bots Report tab above.
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Community Outreach and involvement
Since COVID-19 The Kelliher Bog Bots have been working on replacing lost avenues for out reach, while improving and monitoring existing areas that we have already established. The following are the avenues that we are currently using to reach out and be involved in our community.
Kelliher Public School
Gatherings and events
The Kelliher Bog Bots Team 6453 Is more than just a First Robotics Competition Team with a name and a number and a Neat or cool Mascot and logo. It is apart of a dedicated small town school that itself is an integral part of a hard working small Northern Minnesota Town. Who both have supported us and took an interest in us from our team's Creation to this current Season. In Return, We, the members and staff of 6453 Do our level best to give back to this school and to this town when and wherever possible. Our give back Ranges From our performance at our School's ROBOT & GAME REVEAL every season, to setting up booths and displays at the community's fairs and carnivals, to having a float in the local Big Bog Festival during the summer. Theses avenues of out reach give us a chance to give back to a school and a community that, as a whole given us a lot.
2018 School Reveal to our future members.
FRC Power UP
2019 pre-School assembly Reveal.
The Future of our Team!
2021 Team display in Kelliher Public School Cafeteria to be viewed by all ages.
2023 health fair booth displaying our accomplishments and our new pit.
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Presenters
IN May of 2022 Team 6453 was given the opportunity to present to a neighboring high school, Northome School in Northome Minnesota. We were asked to present to Junior high and high school students, to share with them what it is like being apart of the First Robotics Competition. Including, what FIRST offers, What you can learn in FIRST, what it takes to build a robot, how a typical season is laid out and what we have learned together in our six years of being in FIRSTS Robotics. This presentation was put on to help Northome on their information search on starting a team of their own and becoming apart of the Northern Minnesota Robotics Conference.
Our team displaying and explaining our robot Capitan Jack to perspective Northome team Members
Answering questions about the robot and being apart of a First Robotics Competition Team.
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In Big Bog Festival
In July of 2022 our team put together a float for the Big Bog Festival in Kelliher, Minnesota. We were able to drive our robot ahead of the float with our flag waving proudly. This gave us a chance to be seen by the community and to thank the community for supporting us.
Our team's float before the 2022 Kelliher Big Bog Festival. Ready to be seen by the community