robotics

2008 brought the Cloquet/AlBrook community it's first ever opportunity with FIRST!ROBOTICS, a nationally acclaimed student robotics competition designed for 9th - 12th grade students to build a computerized robots from scratch.

anihinabeg ogichidag team worked with parents and teachers to produce a successful robot, placing 27 out of 50 during their first year of compettion. Over 45 students from AlBrook High School, Fond du Lac Ojibwe Middle and High Schools, Greenway Middle and High Schools, Cloquet High School and Middle Schools, and Woodland Middle School came together after school and on weekends to study, prepare, build and rebuild the robot.

The Fond du Lac based gidakiimanaaniwigamig community program works year long to enrich current school programming in robotics.

The 2009 competition again worked with students and parents to compete in FIRST!Robotics placing 32th out of 64 teams.

These opportunity are made possible through relationships built by ISD2142 American Indian Education Department, AlBrook School, gidakiimanaaniwigamig (area seasonal STEM camping program), the University of Minnesota's Center of Compact and Efficient Fuels (CCEFP) and the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED).

fluid power

2009

The Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power sponsors an annual competition for 8th graders to build and program a robot that incorporates fluid power to operate and complete a number of tasks. Students from the Cloquet and AlBrook schools attended.

2009 was our first year of competition.

Sponsored by the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College and the University of MN, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory's Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED).

lego engineering

we-bots 2009-10

MAST 2009 gida

MAST 2008 gida

MAST 2007 AlBrook

MAST 2007 gida

legocamp 2007

legocamp 2006

gidakiimanaaniwigamig has been working with lego's in summer camps, after school programs and weekend camps. Designed and creating well engineered buildings, bridges and vehicles begins with tinkinering. Lego's allow for necessary trial and error study.

2009-2010 was our first year working with We-Bots.