The Nerds of the North

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2021 Chairman’s

Virtual Chairman’s Binder Since we were unable to travel to competition in person this year, due to the Coronavirus outbreak and affiliated travel restrictions, we are providing a digital copy of the supporting materials that...

Encouraging Literacy

One of our team’s missions is to improve Alaskan youth literacy—which the University of Alaska has noted as being a common barricade for college-bound students. Alaska has an 11% illiteracy rate and has ranked the lowest...

Online Orientation Update!

One of the projects that we are completing under our Equity and Diversity Plan is the creation of a comprehensive online orientation for members who...

Water Jet Photos

We're excited to see that our water jet is working well! Here are some of the things that it has created recently:

Meet a new member!

Hello, my name is Kenya and I am a sophomore in Dimond High School. I joined Nerds of the North last year, just around the...

Game Design Challenge Week 1-4

This year FIRST has decided that they will do their games remotely, and one of the challenges they provided us was the Game Design Challenge....

2021 Robot Redesign: Week 1-4

With another year comes another season, and while this year's challenge is considerably different than anything our team has done before, we're excited to see...

Our Equity and Diversity Plan

For the first time in our team's history, we have created our first ever Equity and Diversity plan! We made this plan to better increase...

2021 FRC Kickoff!

We started this season’s kickoff with FIRST’s livestream. This introduced us to this season’s game and challenges, including the new Game Design Challenge and Innovation...

2021 FRC Kickoff

January 9, 2021 is the annual FIRST Robotics kickoff event! This event marks the start to the season, where the team is assigned challenges including...

Operation Lego Redistribution Updates

Since our last post about Operation Lego Redistribution, we've made a lot of progress in our mission to redistribute Alaska's LEGO supply. After creating our...

Project Avatar Update

For the past many weeks, we've been hard at work on the Project Avatar robot, and this week we hit a big milestone in our...

FTC Workshops

Project Avatar: part 2

Since our last blog post, we've been meeting weekly to design, programming, build, and discuss logistics of our project to build a robot for virtual...

Inside the Riley Robot Game

It took some time, but Riley Robot in a Space Race is now playable on the Riley Robot website! Now that the game is officially...

PNW Chairman’s Championship Event

It is Saturday June 4, 2020. After having won the Chairman's Award at the Wilsonville event, we got the opportunity to travel back to Washington,...

Online Recruitment

Though we may be kept isolating at home, that doesn’t mean we can’t begin recruitment for the upcoming season. Many of our current members heard...

Project Avatar

For a while now, our team has included members from all over Alaska. We even have a member in Mexico! We are currently working on...