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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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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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On Saturday February 11 the iRaiders brought the robot to Quincy and got to practice on a realistic playing field. We were graciously hosted by Quincy Hyper Team #69. They invited multiple teams from Massachusetts to come and practice. They allowed us to use their field to practice challenges that we will need […]

Practice Session in Quincy

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