2024 - 2025 Season
2025 FIRST Robotics Season
The Official FRC game information about "Reefscape" will be released on Saturday, January 4, 2025!
What: Team members, families, and friends are welcome to join us on January 4 to learn what the game is for 2025!
Where: Normal door (Door 16) on North side of school. We will watch the livestream in the auditorium.
When: Saturday, January 4, 2025 from 10am to 12pm. After 12pm, the team members will stay and start planning.
Some light snacks will be provided for all. Then the team will provide lunch for team members after 12pm.
Join GEARS at our regular season competitions!
2024 Season Kickoff!
Date: January 4, 2025
Where: Blaine High School
Time: 10am to 5pm
Familes and friends are welcome to watch the livestream with the team from 10am to 12pm.
We will watch the kickoff video and then start brainstorming for our new robot!
Week Zero Scrimmage at Eagan High School
Date: February 15, 2025
Where: Eagan High School
Time: Matches run from 9am to 4pm
Week Zero Scrimmage at Irondale High School
Date: February 22, 2025
Where: Irondale High School
Time: Matches run from 9am to 4pm
Lake Superior Regional in Duluth
Dates: Feb 26 to Mar 1, 2025
Where: Duluth at the DECC Arena
Time: Generally 9am to 5pm-ish each day
Thursday is Practice matches and Inspection
Friday is Qualifying matches
Saturday morning is Qualifying matches
Saturday afternoon is the Playoffs (if we qualify)
10,000 Lakes Regional in the Twin Cities
Dates: Mar 26 to Mar 29, 2025
Where: Warner Coliseum at MN State Fairgrounds
Time: Generally 9am to 5pm-ish each day
Thursday is Practice matches and Inspection
Friday is Qualifying matches
Saturday morning is Qualifying matches
Saturday afternoon is the Playoffs (if we qualify)
2024 Pre-Season
MinneTrials - Beach Bash
Blaine High School's Robotics Team (2181 GEARS) is competing in MinneTrials this fall. MinneTrials is a practice robotics design/build competition put on by the Hopkins Robotics Team (2239 Technocrats). Our team will break up into 2 smaller teams and build scaled down robots.
We will compete with these robots at L H Tanglen Elementary School on December 7.
Beach Bash Rules can be accessed at this link.
The event will be livestreamed for those that can't make it. Check this link on December 7!
Day of Timeline for Saturday, December 7
7:30 AM Meet at BHS
8:00 AM Leave BHS for L H Tanglen Elementary School
8:30 AM Load-In / Pits Open
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 Alliance Selections
3:45 PM Playoff Matches Begin
5:00 PM Closing Ceremonies
Then we will load out and drive back to BHS (6pm-ish end time total)
Logistics
Food: Team members should bring money for food at concessions. They can also bring something to eat but there won't be ways to heat food.
Apparel: Ideally team members will wear a team t-shirt or sweatshirt. That might not be possible so any Blaine gear or blue will work. They should also wear comfortable shoes because there will be quite a bit of standing or walking.
Transportation: We will carpool down to L H Tanglen Elementary School. Any parents who are available to drive a few team members down would be greatly appreciated. If people are at not comfortable with that, they can drop their team member off at L H Tanglen at around 8:30am and the rest of the team will be there.
Join GEARS at our pre-season competitions!
Roseville Offseason Event
Date: September 28, 2024
Recap: We finished 3rd in qualifying and Captained the 3rd Seed Alliance. We ended up making the Finals of the Playoffs!
East Metro Competition
Date: October 26, 2024
Recap: We had a great time having a bunch of team members get Drive Team practice.
MinneTrials
Date: December 7, 2024
Recap: Our team split up into 2 and built 2 robots for the competition. Our robots finished the playoffs in 1st place and 2nd place. Amazing!!