Congratulations to the Newton Ligerbots, who have won for the Newton Public Schools an award for Progressive Manufacturing Training & Education Mastery in the 2011 Progressive Manufacturing 100 awards. You can see the Ligerbots competing at the following events — free and open to the public:

• March 11 and 12 at the FIRST Regional Competition at Worcester Polytech Institute
• April 8-9 at the Boston regional First Competition at BU’s Agganis arena.  Supt. David Fleishman plans to be there on April 9.