Controlled chaos. Real robots.
Winona students designing, building, and driving competition robots — from blank slate to game day.
So what actually happens here?
Chaotic Robotics is Winona’s student robotics team. Every season we take on the FIRST robotics challenge — a few intense weeks to design, build, and program a competition robot from nothing, then haul it to regional tournaments and go head-to-head with teams from across the region. It runs the whole school year. The build season is just the loudest part.
8+ students
A small, tight-knit crew where nobody rides the bench. Every member designs, builds, wires, or drives — and there’s always room for one more.
8-week build season
From a blank slate to a competition-ready, purpose-built robot in eight weeks flat. It’s the fastest, loudest, most exciting stretch of our year.
FIRST Regional
We compete through FIRST, the world’s largest youth robotics program, going head-to-head with schools from across the region in arena-style tournaments.
Winona Proud
It takes a whole team
A competition robot doesn’t build itself — and it definitely isn’t built by one kind of person. Here’s how we make it happen.
Designing every part in 3D before a single piece of metal gets cut.
Writing the code that lets the robot see, think, and move on its own.
Cutting, machining, and assembling raw stock into real, working parts.
Accelerate, steer, block, position, target, launch, score. Adapt and repeat.
Wiring the motors, sensors, and brains that bring the machine to life.
Pitching alliances, running the pit, and telling the team’s story out loud.
None of this happens without our sponsors
Every robot we build, every competition we enter, and every mile we travel is made possible by the companies and people who back this team.
