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

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

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

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

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 […]

iRaiders Qualify for New England Championships!

By: Ruth Saenz, Melrose High School student Last weekend, March 19th – 20th, the Melrose iRaiders robotics team participated in the North Shore First Robotics Competition (FRC) in Reading, MA. This event marked the first official competition since the beginning of the pandemic. There was much excitement among both mentors […]

Great Success for the iRaiders at the North Shore Robotics ...

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

The team has been working intensely these past few weeks on the robot. The mechanical team has been making awesome progress: “This past week we changed the design of our climbing hook in order to be more stable and finished designing the climber’s mounting plates. We also updated the dimensions […]

Intense Work!

After two years of unprecedented circumstances, the 2021 Raiders Rumble event was held once again at Melrose and turned out to be a huge success! Elementary students competed with their amazing LEGO robots, presented their Innovation projects, and even had a dance party! Each year, the FIRST LEGO League announces […]

Raiders Rumble 2021: A Fun Event for All!

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

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

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