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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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As members of the PR team at iRaiders, we recently had the honor of speaking with our three middle school Vex robotics teams and their mentor, Avi Nagar.  They had a great season that recently ended. The Melrose middle school has three Vex teams that often work together. One of […]

Interview with the Vex Team

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After three months of preseason meetings and planning, the kickoff of the new FRC game: Infinite Recharge is finally live. To celebrate and begin the season the team met up to watch the livestream and even began forming strategy and design plans. We had plenty of fun and it seems […]

First day of FIRST robotics 2020

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We recently received shirts and much needed computers from NWN, a technology solutions company in Waltham, Massachusetts. These computers have done wonders for our team dynamics as computers are often expensive and hard for us to get even though they are essential. We use them everyday of our competition season […]

Brand new computers supplied by NWN

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Robotics is a team activity. Many different disciplines are needed—software, electrical, computer aided design, public relations, and more. One particular discipline involves a lot of manual and physical labor: mechanical. Working with and learning about all the heavy-duty machines calls for a capable mentor, and the Melrose High School iRaiders […]

Profiles in Mentoring: Meet Jon Rosenfeld

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At the Southern New England Championship at Walsh Middle School the iRaiders VEX team “C” became Tournament Champions and will go to World the Championship in Kentucky! Four middle schools seventh graders met every Wednesday for two hours in the lab at Melrose High School to build a robot that […]

VEX iRaiders “C” Team Goes to Worlds

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It is our pleasure to announce that our Pre-Season has begun. We are training many wonderful new members and preparing for our upcoming season. One of the main focuses of our team is to always train the next generation of our peers in the same way we were. Our seniors […]

Pre-Season 2018 Training has Begun!

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We are pleased to invite you to attend the Melrose Kitchen Tour 2018 on November 4th from 1-5 pm. Join the iRaiders in viewing some of the most beautifully renovated kitchens in the entire city of Melrose. To attend this fundraiser you can buy a ticket from any member of […]

Melrose Kitchen Tour 2018

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