By Jenn McDowell WEARE – The FIRST robotics season kicked off for teams around the world with the announcement of this year’s challenge: FIRST Overdrive. Through a Web simulcast from Southern New Hampshire University on Saturday, Jan. 5, 3, 500 high school teams from the all over the world, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the ...

BY ROD HANSEN Some high school-age students on the Weare Rocketry Team recently made history as student space scientists. A rocket team from the middle school, meanwhile, hopes to repeat the success of their older counterparts from a year earlier. Members of the Student Launch Initiative team, composed mainly of John Stark Regional High ...