Seven robotics teams from the Northern Minnesota Robotics Conference will be competing at the FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston this week. Alexandria Robotics Advisor Jennie Engel, and Andy Paulson of Perham Robotics tell us what the next few days will look like for the teams in attendance. There are multiple ways for robotics teams…
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Dozens of area robotics teams will be in St Cloud the rest of the week for the 2nd Annual Northern Minnesota Robotics Conference (NMRC) Granite City Regional. Event organizer Curtis Robertson gives us a preview of this year’s competition. Robertson says if you’ve never been to a robotics competition, this is a perfect one to…
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A pair of NMRC teams will be competing at the Bayou Regional in New Orleans this week. Team Advisor Olaf Netteberg of team 3102 the Tech-No-Tigers out of Nevis, and his students Kat Marotte and Bennen Snow tell us more about the trip, and who’s joining them for the trip. Marotte and Snow also told…
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The Northern Minnesota Robotics Conference wrapped up their annual Great Northern Regional this weekend at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks. NMRC Representative, and Hatton Northwood Robotics Advisor Mike Voglewede says the event went off without any issues. Voglewede is also excited to announce some of this year’s award winners, which includes his very own…
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The Northern Minnesota Robotics Conference’s Great Northern Regional kicks off on Thursday, and all are invited out to the Alerus Center in Grand Forks to see all the work NMRC teams have done so far this year. Thunder Robotics coach Mike Voglewede of Hatton-Northwood tells us what people can expect from the event. Voglewede says…
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The 2025/2026 FIRST Robotics Season is now in full swing, and students are doing what they can in promoting the ever growing sport of robotics, and recruiting kids into their local teams. Eric Schaefer is the coach of KAOTIC Robotics out of Frazee, and he’s seen two of his daughters go through the program. In…
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The Northern Minnesota Robotics Conference has representatives at the Duluth Regionals which kicked off yesterday and run through Saturday. Briley Olsonawski from the Thief River Based team Pro-Digi tells us more about this event, and he also explains why it was one Pro-Digi wanted to attend after not going for a few years. Each year…
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More and more schools across Minnesota are adopting robotics as an affiliated activity, and for those competing in FIRST Robotics their season will be kicking off soon. While FIRST has been around for over 30 years, many communities with FIRST schools and teams are unaware of what the league is and how it operates. FIRST…
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Over twenty teams will be in attendance at the Northern Minnesota Robotics Conference (NMRC) Championship today in robotics, and two teams that will be competing are coming from the same school. While it’s not uncommon for larger schools to field multiple teams, it is uncommon for a school of Cass Lake Bena’s size. The uniqueness…
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This Friday the Northern Minnesota Robotics Conference (NMRC) will be wrapping up their 2023/2024 season this Friday and Saturday, with their annual Conference Championship. NMRC President Jesse Frost gives us a preview of the two day event which is set to take place in Bemidji. Frost said everyone is invited to attend the free two…
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