Shrewsbury Robotics

Shrewsbury Robotics FLL team Neon Nerdettes competed at the Georgia Tech Invitational 2026 last week.

We are pleased to announce they continued their winning streak with a 4th place Robot Design Award.

The team is comprised of 3 students from Oak Middle School and 1 student from Sherwood Middle School. They won Champions Award at their qualifier at WPI and then were a Champions Award Finalist at the Mass State Championship, this earned them an invite to the Georgia event.

It is time to kick off the upcoming 2026/27 season of FIRST LEGO League.

The Information Meeting will be held on Monday, June 15th 2026, 7pm at Oak Middle School in the Cafeteria.

Check out BALL-E at Granite State

This weekend we competed at the Granite State District Qualifier in Bedford, New Hampshire for our first competition of the season. After qualification matches we were ranked 15th out of 34 teams with a record of 4-7-0. We were the first pick of alliance 7 captained by Team 7674: RaiderBots, with their second pick Team 126: Gael Force filling out our alliance. Unfortunately, we lost both of our playoff matches, however the team was able to bring home the Judges’ Award which the judges described as follows:

We’ve put in a lot of hours over the past nine weeks and have our robot BALL-E to a very competitive spot, ready to face off and make alliances with other teams at our first competition this season.

You can catch us and our robot on March 14th and 15th at the Granite State District event, both in person and streaming online on YouTube. The detailed match schedule will be posted during the event on The Blue Alliance.

Shrewsbury Robotics will be running our Lego Summer Program again this year. The program is a one week course, Monday-Friday 8:30am-3:30pm at Shrewsbury High School. Middle School attendees will be coached by Shrewsbury Robotics team members in using Lego Spike kits to compete on the field from last fall (2025). We will be operating the same style of program as previous years using the FIRST Lego League Challenge from 2025.

As we approach the first half of the build season we want to give an update on this year’s robot. We’re excited to announce that our robot is officially mechanically complete! It’s now in the hands of our electrical and programming teams as they finalize wire placement, test out the sub-systems, and get everything competition-ready. Our machining team has finished all parts, and our programming team has completed the robot’s subsystems, which are now entering testing. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be refining everything and working to fix a shooter oscillation issue to ensure consistent performance. In other great news, our Impact Essay has been submitted, our presentation script draft is finished, and our video is currently in production. We’re also preparing for the Impact Presentation. Let’s finish the season strong—Go Team 467!

Just in time for the 2026 kickoff, here’s a lookback at the 2025 competition season.

Thank you to everyone who helped make Mindstorm Mayhem last week such a fantastic event! We’re excited to share that it was a huge success. Not only did we pull off a smooth and well-run competition, but 15 teams also took home awards!

This year was truly something special. Congratulations to all the teams who qualified and celebrated big wins!