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

The past week has seen us make strides in our progress on the robot. For our software team the main focus was to ensure that we had a smoothly running driving code by fixing all newly discovered bugs. We also began testing on the laser rangefinders, encoders, and the ultrasonic […]

Week 4 Update!!!

For the past sixteen days the team has been working on designing, prototyping and developing ideas on how we want our robot to operate. After watching the kickoff video as a team we broke into three separate groups with the goal of figuring out what the best ways to score […]

The season begins!

The iRaiders team was on the edge of their seats January 5th as they awaited the game details for Destination: Deep Space. The kick-off marks the beginning of the build and design season for the 2019 robotics team. The kickoff sets the scene for the game, as well as giving […]

Ready… Set… BUILD!

We are happy to announce that the Lego Lords won the Strategy and Innovation award at the FLL state championship. They were awarded this because of their ingenuity and their well developed strategy. They won the same award at their State Qualifier because of their exemplary performance.  In order to […]

Lego Lords Win Strategy and Innovation Award at State Championship

We are sending our congratulations to the Lego Lords and the MVMMS iRaiders for their fantastic performance in their state qualifier the Raiders Rumble. The Lego Lords did extremely well by finishing in the top 3 of 26 teams based on score.  They also earned a golden ticket for the […]

Melrose Teams Win at State Qualifier