End of Year Picnic – Tuesday, May 22nd
Tuesday marked the final day of our season. We took our dinner to the park, where we played Frisbee and congratulated our about-to-graduate seniors.

Tuesday marked the final day of our season. We took our dinner to the park, where we played Frisbee and congratulated our about-to-graduate seniors.

It’s February, and along with the days getting colder, the GRS Idea Lab is getting busier, as we’re happy to say that we’re meeting in person again! We’re building a robot. The CAD designs we started last summer are finished, and we have sent some of those parts to our sponsor, Quality Tool, to get…
On Saturday, the 7th of 2017, the new game, FIRST Steamworks, was released and explained in full detail to participating teams! We, along with multiple other St. Paul-based teams, attended Kickoff at Central High School. This year’s game involves gathering resources to prepare an airship for liftoff. After viewing the game’s animation and reading the…
NoMythic is nearing the start of our 4th week of competition season, and the clock is ticking! We’re hard at work on our robot, with a big CAD (Computer Assisted Design) push happening this week. After our CAD is complete, we’ll begin working on constructing our bot. We use CAD to design our mechanics before…
We celebrate the things that really matter to us, and this year our had a lot to celebrate! Each and every member of our community, including each student, mentor, parent, sponsor and more was necessary to build a robot and a community that earned a spot to the World Championships this year.
At North Star, our breakneck drive team took our rigorously engineered robot all the way to finals. They played well, match after match, ending up on the 6th seed alliance. We lost – only to the first seed alliance, earning a ticket to FIRST World Championship!
Well, build season has officially started, and it started with a bang! Yesterday (January ninth,) we had an all-team meeting to kickoff the build season and the game for 2021. We started off with introductions, then played a Kahoot to test our knowledge of the game. After that, we watched the official live kickoff video…