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After over a decade of team history, we noticed a long standing phenomena occuring: teams in Chicago were significantly prone to dying out. Coming from a variety of reasons but namely, FRC 1781 found a lack of resources to be the prime issue. In an effort to reverse this, we came up with a plan, an organization: the Chicago Robotics Alliance!
Because we know that we are stronger when we are united, Lindblom Electric Eagles became the leader and organizer of this coalition to pile resources, spaces, knowledge, and man-power together for the benefit of all teams across Chicago!
Since its founding in 2019, the CRA has helped support and keep alive dozens of teams, and strengthen the STEM precense in Chicago!
Blue: FRC
Red: FTC
Yellow: 1781
The FIRST Robotics Competition is HUGE! Both in its reach across the globe and the spaces needed to compete. With fields the size of a gymnasium, it is incredibly difficult for teams to actively test their designs without the spaces available. The CRA has worked to fix this issue!
Following the discontinued use of an AIM facility, 1781 pivoted. Locating an abandoned High School nearby, we saw the perfect opportunity to gain a huge space! With the help of other teams in the CRA, 1781 convinced Chicago Public Schools to allow us to use Harper High School, providing a place for dozens of Chicagoan teams to test their robots with the dynamic spacing and game elements the year's game!
For the first 14 years of our team, we struggled significantly with fabricating precision parts to build our designs. A lack of access to industry partners/sponsors with fabrication capabilities prevented us from creating precision parts which limited the abilities of our designs, a narrative all too familiar to under-resourced teams. Thankfully, in 2018, with enormous help from Baxter, we built the Baxter Innovation Lab at Lindblom. The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment that has changed the design capabilities of our team.
More recently, starting in 2025 , we have been working to establish a new innovation lab at Harper High School for other robotics teams to utilize. The space was once functioning as a high school, but has since been abandoned. So, we saw an opportunity while partnering with the Chicago robotics alliance to repurpose this space into something students can collaborate, innovate and develop their skills while creating something that can truly help the community.
For this reason, it is a primary goal of Lindblom Robotics to support parts fabrication for robotics teams throughout Chicagoland. In most cases, teams provide designs and materials that we use to manufacture the parts as quickly as possible.
Summer Internship
Summer Internship
The grind never ends! During the summer, Lindblom Electric Eagles has worked to provide a space for teams across Chicago to gain real internship experience and money!
With the help of our manufacturing facilities, students are able to design, create, learn, and prepare for the upcoming robotics season through projects of their choice! While some invent machnisms, others draft repositories, or even some organize team logistics, all students are given a space to grow as people and thinkers.
And speaking of that summer internship! One of the most important affects of this program was the creation of the Lindbot by students during the summer! The Lindbot was designed to be a small, easily accessible mini-robot that all students could use as a starting point to grow their interest, skills, and passion for STEM!
Now, the Lindbot is both implemented in the curriculum of LMSA and many other High Schools across Chicago, teaching students the skills of CAD, CAM, programming, and more all through one small robot!
Lindblom's National Society of Black Engineers Jr. board composes of veteran 1781 team members.
Host meetings that introduce students to different fields and aspects of engineering through activities and guest speakers.
These meetings are open to students of all ages from various schools within our community.
Found and run by Halima Adegbite, a past Senior on Team 1781 during the Charged Up game season.
Monthly meetings allow students to speak with collegiate programs such as; SWE (Society of Women in Engineering) and SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers).
The program is open to 7th-12th graders, and students who are part of our robotics program also present the robotics opportunity to the younger students.
Students get hands-on experience with machinery and learn about the engineering design process.
Starting in 2022 and officialized in 2025, Lindblom's Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers aims to support and uplift the Hispanic community by organizing monthly meetings centered on discovering new fields of engineering and gaining the perspectives of professional and collegiate engineers.
In 2025, the Chicago SHPE Jr. Conference was organized by SHPE Lindblom in order to expand the number of chapters in Chicago.
Kickoff (FRC)
Kickoff (FRC)
Kickoff (FTC)
Kickoff (FTC)
To prepare for the upcoming season, Lindblom hosts the FTC kickoff to many different FTC teams across Chicago. At the kickoff, we learn about FIRST, reveal the game and field, ask and answer questions We also use this event to inform the teams about d
One of the hardest aspects of Robotics is sustainability. One year, a team can be smashing it! But the next, it can die out. Lindblom Electric Eagles has seen this and worked to prevent it! Understanding that growing the skills of all students in all grade levels is important for the long-term, we now mentor 3 FTC teams from grades 7-9 in order to prepare them for the increased technicalities of FRC!
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