Wicked Local This is the first in a series of stories exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted vocational technical schools in the region. Inside one of Minuteman Regional High School's robotics labs, a small group of students gathers around a massive machine. Next to them, Robotics and Automation instructor Tina Collins looks on. The walls around the group are plastered with the blueprints of spaceships. Silently, 3D printers toil away on one side of the room, slowly constructing tiny robotics parts. Inside the machine at the center of the gathering, green lasers seamlessly etch the Minuteman logo onto wooden cribbage boards. Carpentry students made the board, and were now collaborating with Collins and her robotics students to finish them with the laser machine. Collins and the students laugh as they peer eagerly into the machine, watching tiny lines form on their boards.