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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

15 Apr, 2023 in Blog by Hannah Haseltine

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 ...

7 Apr, 2023 in Blog by James Horne

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!

18 Mar, 2023 in Blog by James Horne

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

17 Jan, 2023 in Blog by Hannah Haseltine

Three Melrose Teams won awards at the Melrose Rumble on December 3rd On Dec 3, 2022 The Red Hawks Robotics held their 9th Annual Raiders Rumble. Kids ranging from 4th to 8th Graders from all around Eastern MA. competing for a spot at the Massachusetts States Competition being held on December […]

CHILDREN IN STEM, CREATING AND RETHINKING HOW ENERGY WORKS

17 Dec, 2022 in Blog by Nico Mohan

Melrose iRaiders will be hosting an open house on Saturday June 11th from 9:00 AM to noon in the Marcoux Gym Where: Marcoux Gym When: 9:00AM – noon What: Exhibition of Melrose Robotics Programs in Grades 4-12 featuring live demonstrations, chance to meet coaching staff to ask questions and signup […]

Melrose Robotics Open House and Fall Signup June 11th

30 May, 2022 in Blog by James Horne

Whether you’re in grades 4-12 now is the time to signup for our fall robotics programs. First Lego League (FLL) for grades 4-6 VEX for grades 7-12 First Robot Competition grades 9-12

Fall Signup for 2023 Melrose Robotics

30 May, 2022 in Blog by James Horne

By Ruth Saenz, MHS student The arena is filled with a cheering crowd. Everyone is adorned in their team’s color. All are waiting for the six teams to compete in their final match. The red alliance versus the blue alliance: who will win? Robots rush across the field shooting as […]