2025 - 2026 Season

FRC Team 2181 GEARS competed at 2 separate competitions at Roseville Area High School on October 4 and October 5, 2025. We had a great time on both days and ended up making the playoffs on both days!

Roseville Offseason Events

Date: October 4, 2025 and October 5, 2025

Where: Roseville High School

When: Each day will start at approximately 8am and last until about 5pm.

Saturday Oct 4: 1-day event including qualifying matches and playoff matches

Sunday Oct 5: 1-day event featuring drive teams made of under represented in STEM groups

Anoka Light Up The Night Parade

FRC Team 2181 GEARS demonstrated our robot at the Anoka Light Up The Night Parade in October. We created and decorated our float and then drove/operated throughout the parade. Anoka estimates about 10,000 people were in attendance!

2025 MinneTrials

Blaine High School's Robotics Team (2181 GEARS) is competing in MinneTrials this fall 2025. MinneTrials is a practice robotics competition put on by some teams in the Twin Cities. We will compete on Sunday, December 7 from 8:30am to 5pm at L H Tanglen Elementary School in Hopkins, MN. We will compete against 8 other robots (so 12 total robots).

Our team is splitting up into 4 smaller teams to give our team members maximum ability to contribute to the design, build, wiring, and programming of a robot. Each team will create a scaled down robot out of wood to compete. The team captains are Gabriella, Kaydon, Matthew, and Timothy.

The game has been revealed!! This year's MinneTrials game is called Popcorn Premiere! Robots will score tennis balls into a goal or foam cubes into a separate goal. Game Rules can be viewed here.

A livestream of the event will be available at this link. The match schedule and scores will also be updated at this link.

Logistics

Transportation: It is up to individual team members to find transport to the Elementary School. If a student needs to car pool, they can come to BHS at 7am to help load up the trailer and then grab a ride with a group.

Food: Our team will provide Costco Pizzas for the entire team (student team members and mentors/coaches) for lunch. We will have non-meat options (cheese pizza). Unfortunately, we will not have non-dairy options.

We are asking parents to bring drinks, snacks, plates, etc if possible to the event. These items can also be dropped off at a team meeting this week and then we'll bring it to the event.

Parents/non-team members will need to find their own lunch during the competition. There will be a small concessions stand selling pop, candy, popcorn, etc.

Volunteering: Thank you thank you thank to all the parents who have signed up to volunteer!

Day of Timeline for Competition Day

Sunday, December 7, 2025 at L H Tanglen Elementary School in Hopkins, MN

7:00 AM - Meet at BHS to load up trailer and carpool for those that need it

8:30 AM - Load-In / Pits Open (those NOT carpooling, should be to the elementary school by this time)

9:00 AM - Inspections & Volunteer Check-In

9:30 AM - Practice Matches Start (2 matches / team)

11:00 AM - Qualification Matches Start (8 qual matches / team)

12:00 PM - Lunch

12:45 PM - Qualification Matches Resume

3:15 PM - Playoff Alliance Selections

3:45 PM - Playoff Matches Begin

5:00 PM - Closing Ceremonies

The Benevolent Buttery Bunz

Captain: Gabriella W

4th Alliance Pick

FInished 4th place

The Better Buttery Bunz

Captain: Kaydon D

2nd Alliance Captain

Finished 2nd place

The Buttery Bunz

Captain: Matthew H

1st Alliance Captain

Finished 3rd place

GEAR LOCKED

Captain: Timothy N

2nd Alliance Pick

Finished 2nd place

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