News & Stories 

Our final event of the season is a popular one! The WPI District Event hosted the most teams prior to DCMP this year, with teams traveling in from New Hampshire, Vermont, Connectict, Rhode Island, and all corners of Massachusetts. Thanks to WPI Dean of Undergraduate Studies Arne Gericke for welcoming our competitors to the NE venue that has hosted more robotics competitions per year than any other!

We've played the last district qualifiers in New England! In just ten days we'll be kicking off the New England District Championship at The Big E with 100 teams from all over our region! The second annual UVM District Event welcomed teams from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine and of course Vermont to the University of Vermont.

And finally, down in Connecticut, the Hartford District Event completed our second weekend of three events at once! Teams from Connecticut and Massachusetts competed at Hartford Public High School for the 12th year. All of our Connecticut teams have been supported for multiple years by the Connecticut Office of Manufacturing. We are incredibly grateful for this partnership! Chief Manufacturing Officer Kirti Patel joined us in person to celebrate the renewal of this incredi

Heading north, our second event this past weekend was held at the University of New Hampshire, a wonderful partner to our district since its founding. Having hosted 8 previous district qualifiers and the District Championship in 2016, the event was excited to see teams from every New England state!

Our second weekend hosting three simultaneous events is in the books! In Massachusetts, Revere High School hosted the Greater Boston District Event with teams from New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut and Mass.

We were excited to see teams from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire at one of our longest-running events in the same venue! The Waterbury District Event wowed visitors while kicking off two weekends in a row of CT events.

Our third year at the University of Rhode Island was a memorable one, with teams from all six New England states competing! This won't happen again until the District Championship next month! Thank you to university President Mark Parlange and College of Engineering Dean Anthony Marchese for welcoming our teams to the campus. Electrical engineering graduate student Anna Cetera gave a wonderful opening presentation encouraging students to consider URI for undergrad.

The Western NE District Event returned to Western New England University for the 6th time, welcoming teams from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire. Special thanks to our event chair Dr. Christian Salmon for introducing incoming University president Dr. Joseph Hartman and to both for welcoming our teams on Saturday morning! Local media had great coverage of the entire weekend. See our Press Room for the articles!

Returning this year after a brief hiatus, the North Shore District Event welcomed teams from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania to Reading Memorial High School! The added FIRST LEGO League Explore Festival was a special afternoon for everyone who participated and cheered them on.