We are seeking help from the community to support sending our high school team, Red Hawk Robotics 2713, to the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) World Championship in Houston, Texas from April 17th-20th, 2024. Last year, the team, qualified and attended for the first time, placing 11th out of 80 teams […]

Help Us Attend World Champs!

By Kate Urchuk This Saturday, June 24th, Melrose High School’s FIRST Robotics team took home gold (in the form of a decorative beach towel) at an off-season competition in Falmouth, ME.  At the event — appropriately named “Summer Heat” — Red Hawk Robotics (RHR) competed with 29 other teams in […]

Melrose High School’s Red Hawk Robotics Wins “Summer Heat” Competition

Stop by at our annual community Open House, where you can see this season’s robots in action! Learn more about each of the robotics programs teams and offerings, and get the chance to talk to mentors and student leaders. You might get the chance to drive a robot yourself! The […]

Melrose Robotics Interactive Demo

By Hannah Haseltine When it comes down to it, the fate of the robotics team boils down to how the robot performs at competitions, and the competitions are not what you might expect. Nothing prepares you for the large-scale impact and overwhelming influence robotics has on students who participate in […]

Red Hawk Robotics Flies High at the FRC World Championship

By Hannah Haseltine Last week, Melrose High School’s robotics team, Red Hawk Robotics, competed at District Championships in West Springfield. Despite some complications on the first day of qualification matches, the team was able to resolve the issues and place sixteenth overall. The team was picked first by the sixth […]

Red Hawk Robotics Secures Trip to World Championship

By Hannah Haseltine Last week, Elizabeth Giovanardi, local teacher and mentor for Melrose’s robotics team, Red Hawk Robotics, received the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award. Each year, students can submit an essay nominating a mentor from their team to receive this award, known as the WFFA for short. The WFFA is […]

Melrose Teacher Wins Prestigious Award at NE District Championship

By Hannah Haseltine and Sabrina Germain, Melrose High School Students On January 7th and 8th, the Melrose High School’s robotics team celebrated the kickoff of their official competition season by watching the FIRST Robotics Twitch stream announcing the new game.  In this year’s challenge, Charged Up, two alliances of three […]

Red Hawk Robotics Gets Charged Up for their New Season

The VEX team is back! After a short hiatus due to the Omicron variant and a snow storm, the team competed at the “Tipping Point” robotics competition in Framingham, Massachusetts. “Tipping Point” was a qualifying tournament for the Southern New England Regional Championships competition, so the team needed to perform […]

VEX Team at “Tipping Point” Competition

From left to right: 8033: Highlander Robotics, 2713: Red Hawk Robotics, 6329: The Bucks’ Wrath, 1730: Team Driven
Melrose High School’s robotics team, Red Hawk Robotics, had the privilege of participating in FIRST Robotics’ World Championship for the second year in a row. The event took place from April 17th through the 20th in Houston, Texas. Before the season had even started at Kickoff back in January, the […]

Red Hawk Robotics Divisional Finalist at FIRST World Championship

In their 2nd District Event of the 2024 season, Melrose High’s Red Hawk Robotics Team competed just down the road at Revere High School, at the FIRST Robotics Competition Greater Boston Event. The team’s skill and dedication allowed them to lock their qualification for the New England District Championship, held […]

Red Hawk Robotics Lock New England Championship Qualification

By Addy Hickey Melrose High School’s Red Hawk Robotics (RHR) attended the Bridgewater State University New England FIRST District Event the weekend of March 9th as their first competition of the 2024 season. The team ranked 14th out of 36 teams after a rough set of qualification matches on Saturday […]

Red Hawk Robotics Lands 3rd Place Alliance at BSU District ...

On December 2nd, Melrose Middle School FLL team the “Fire Frogs” earned a second place overall finish at the Red Hawk Rumble, the Melrose qualifier event, as the team that was best at both their innovation project as well as their robot performance. The project was judged in a 30 […]

Melrose FireFrogs advance to State Finals

This past Sunday, October 22nd, Melrose High School’s Red Hawk Robotics team members joined their community in the Melrose Alliance Against Violence (MAAV) annual candlelight vigil and walk. MAAV is committed to ending domestic violence, teen dating abuse, and violence through community awareness activities, education prevention programs in schools, and […]

Red Hawks Driving Inclusivity With MAAV

March 24th – 26thBy: James Horne & Hannah Haseltime The Red Hawk Robotics team flew to the top of the qualifying  matches, finishing second in a field of thirty-nine New England teams. The team also won the Judges Award, which recognizes one team at the event who delivered overall program […]

Red Hawk Robotics finish in 2nd place at Greater Boston ...

Written by Sabrina Germain On March 4th and 5th, Melrose High’s Red Hawk Robotics team competed in the Week 1 Competition at Bridgewater highschool. With a rocky start, the team was skeptical of their odds of placing high. Thanks to their consistent scouting, a method of data analysis to pick […]

Red Hawk Robotics makes team history at Week One competition!