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DESCRIPTION:On January 26th from 9:00AM to 2:00PM the Melrose Middle Scho
 ol Cafeteria and Auditorium will host a major First Lego League Competit
 ion. Teams from grades 4-8 must preregister through the www.usfirst.org 
 website. Attendance to the competition is free and open to the public. I
 t is an excellent way to learn how Lego League is inspiring students in 
 the areas of science\, technology\, engineering and math.\nThis year&rsq
 uo\;s competition is called Senior Solutions. Students will have prepare
 d both projects and a complex robot. Both explore how seniors can contin
 ue to be independent\, engaged and connected in their communities. For t
 he project students will have interviewed a senior\, selected a problem\
 , and then invented a solution to the problem. In the robot competition 
 students will explore medicine dispensing\, how to climb stairs\, how to
  maintain fitness\, and many other areas of senior&rsquo\;s life.\nMelro
 se has spawned a number of teams\, but to date has never had a local fie
 ld on which to compete. &ldquo\;This is like the early days of the littl
 e league baseball system of Melrose.&rdquo\; said James Horne event coor
 dinator\, &ldquo\;a lack of playing fields has limited public awareness 
 of how fun these competitions are. We hope that this event will draw abo
 ut 300 people with teams traveling from New Hampshire and Eastern Massac
 husetts to attend.\n&ldquo\;This competition continues to build local st
 rength in First Lego League in Melrose&rdquo\;\, said John Wright\, &ldq
 uo\;We ran coach workshops this summer to train coaches on how to build 
 a team. From this effort we have teams at the Lincoln\, Roosevelt\, and 
 Horace Mann schools&rdquo\;
URL:http://melrose.patch.com/events/raiders-rumble-first-lego-league-comp
 etition
SUMMARY:Raiders Rumble First Lego League Competition
LOCATION:Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School: 350 Lynn Fells Pkwy\, M
 elrose\, MA
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