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

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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

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

The kitchen tour this year was a resounding success and even going into it off of ticket sales online, we knew the 12th annual Melrose Kitchen Tour would be a big one. Across our 12 kitchens we had dozens of avid tourists eager to see the dazzling work done on […]

Another FANTASTIC year of the Melrose Kitchen Tour!

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

Come join us on Sunday November 3, 2019 from 1-5pm for a fun afternoon exploring a unique collection of recently renovated kitchens on the 12th Annual Melrose Kitchen Tour! Be inspired by interesting design and decor, chat with homeowners, contractors, designers, and architects about their kitchen project, and enjoy tasty […]

12th Annual Melrose Kitchen Tour – Get Your Tickets Now!

This is the 2018-19 Chairman’s Award Video! As a team, we all worked very hard and are proud of our great season!!

Chairman’s Award Video

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

As the end of the build season approached, the length of the meetings and the intensity increased, demanding a lot of hard work from our students. The students worked on integrating the subsystems they had worked on during the build season. The hatch intake and ball intake were combined and […]

Post Build Season Update