HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-07-16 Honoring Team 1816PROCLAMATION
HONORING EDINA'S FIRST ROBOTICS TEAM 1816
WHEREAS: FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a non-profit
organization that promotes science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to students
in grades K- 12, engaging them in exciting robotics competitions; and
WHEREAS: Since becoming a part of FIRST in the fall of 2005, the mission of Edina Robotics FIRST Team
I816—"The Green Machine" has been to create bold, confident student leaders, who will
transform culture to promote, value, and celebrate STEM; bring FIRST to new audiences; be
role models of gracious professionalism; and to use their experiences to expand FIRST and
make FIRST available to all; and
WHEREAS: During the Edina team's I4-year history in the FIRST program, Team 1816 has won the
Regional Chairman's Award seven times, as well as being honored as one of three Detroit
Championship Chairman's Finalists in 2018. The team has also won 58 other awards from
the 38 official FIRST events at which they've competed; and
WHEREAS: FIRST Team 1816—"The Green Machine" won the World Championship Chairman's Award at
the 2019 FIRST Robotics World Championship event in Detroit, Michigan, in May 2019; and
WHEREAS: The "Green Machine" is the first team from Minnesota to win the most prestigious award
given at the annual World Championship event, as it honors the team judged to have had
the most significant, measurable impact on the world, inspiring young people to appreciate
and pursue careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math; and
WHEREAS: Edina's FIRST Team 1816 was selected for the award from a field of 44 teams that qualified
for consideration by winning the Regional Chairman's Award at events around the world; and
WHEREAS: Team 1816 will be inducted into the FIRST Robotics Hall of Fame, a group of 29 teams from
Canada, Australia and several U.S. states, which have won the award since its inception in 1992.
Now, therefore, the Edina City Council does hereby proclaim Tuesday, July 16, 2019, as
FIRST ROBOTICS TEAM 18 I 6 IN THE CITY F EDINA
in recognition of the many accomplishments of "The Green Machine" and especi ll }\i recognition in 2019 as the
recipient of the highest award in the world of STEM and FIRST, the World Cham o s ip Chairman's Award.
In witness thereof, I have here unto set by hand this 16th day of July, 2019
James B. Hovland, Mayor