Three teams. Twenty-four students. Fifteen years of robotics — and the last five our fastest-growing yet. A Christian high school robotics program in Mayer, Minnesota.
It is, a little. We design them, build them, and compete them. But strip away the awards and the rankings, and what you find in our workspace is a group of kids working on a problem together.
A freshman who didn't know a servo from a stepper motor in September is, by February, fixing the code a senior wrote. A senior patiently explains CAD to an eighth grader.
Every season, students across multiple grade levels work side by side. Here's where we ended up in 2025–26.
Mayer Lutheran covers registration through activity fees. Everything else — robots, tools, travel, the summer STEM camp we run for grades 4–9 — comes from people who believe in what's happening here.
We don't do sponsorships. We don't sell logo space. We just tell the story and invite people to help. Any gift goes directly to support the program.
Every summer, our high schoolers run a weeklong camp for kids in grades four through nine. They plan the activities. They teach the sessions. Some campers become the next Crusader Robotics student. Others just leave with a good week and a sense that something interesting is happening at their local high school.
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