James Horne

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

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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

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We are excited to announce that this year the iRaiders Melrose Robotics team will be joining Melrose Alliance Against Violence for their annual walk, taking place this Sunday October 24th at 4pm at Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School. MAAV seeks to raise awareness on issues like bullying, teen dating abuse, […]

MAAV’s 26 Anniversary Walk & Vigil

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By: Ruth Saenz Interested in science, building, and creating? Signup now! Besides being a pathway for interest in STEM, the Melrose robotics teams allow for students to discover and develop skills such as teamwork, collaboration, problem solving, and critical thinking. Melrose public schools offer a robotics program for students interested. […]

Spring Recruitment – Signup Now

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The iRaiders team was on the edge of their seats January 5th as they awaited the game details for Destination: Deep Space. The kick-off marks the beginning of the build and design season for the 2019 robotics team. The kickoff sets the scene for the game, as well as giving […]

Ready… Set… BUILD!

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The iRaiders are hosting their seventh Raiders Rumble! We are excited to host this event on Saturday December 8th from 8:30 am until 4:00 pm. For those that don’t know, the Raiders Rumble is a First Lego League robotics competition for elementary and middle school aged children. The Raiders Rumble […]

Raiders Rumble is Fast Approaching!

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Our first FRC competition was on March 18th-19th at Reading High School March 18th: On March 18th is the beginning of qualification rounds. March 19th: This is the last day of competition, this is when the winners are decided. The winning teams were 5556 (Carriage Town Robotics), 4761 (Robockets) and 1071 (Team […]

Reading Competition: Team Spirit Award

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Climber Group: They installed a new method for controlling the rope on the spool and tested it on the climber. It worked fairly well, but in the end bent. Tomorrow, they will be moving towards stronger brackets and supports. Gear Group: They secured down some of the parts of the […]

Week 5 Update

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