2012 FIRST Robotics Competition Awards

Award

Winner

Regional Chairman's Award*

Team 564, Longwood High School, Middle Island, NY

Regional Engineering Inspiration Award**

Team 2638, Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, NY

Regional Winner #1**

Team 527, Plainedge High School, North Massapequa, NY

Regional Winner #2**

Team 1796, Queens Vocational and Technical High School, Long Island City, NY

Regional Winner #3

Team 870, Southold Junior Senior High School, Southold, NY

Regional Finalist #1

Team 3137, Connetquot Central School District, Bohemia, NY

Regional Finalist #2

Team 329, Patchogue-Medford High School, Medford, NY

Regional Finalist #3

Team 353, Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School, Plainview, NY

Underwriters Laboratory Industrial Safety Award

Team 329, Patchogue-Medford High School, Medford, NY

Highest Rookie Seed Award

Team 4006, Central Islip Senior High School, Central Islip, NY

Rookie All Star Award**

Team 3950, North Shore High School, Glen Head, NY

Rookie Inspiration Award

Team 4006, Central Islip Senior High School, Central Islip, NY

Chrysler Team Spirit Award

Team 353, Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School, Plainview, NY

Johnson & Johnson Gracious Professionalism

Team 358, Hauppauge High School, Hauppauge, NY

Motorola Quality Award

Team 527, Plainedge High School, North Massapequa, NY

Coopertition™ Award

Team 569, W.T. Clarke High School, Westbury, NY

General Motors Industrial Design Award

Team 1796, Queens Vocational and Technical High School, Long Island City, NY

Website Award

Team 353, Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School, Plainview, NY

Judges Award

Team 1468, Hicksville High School, Hicksville, NY

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award

Team 884, Malverne High School, Malverne, NY

Delphi Engineering Excellence Award

Team 3137, Connetquot Central School District, Bohemia, NY

Xerox Creativity Award

Team 1751, Comsewogue High School, Port Jefferson Station, NY

Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award

Team 2875, Cold Spring Harbor High School, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen

Team 3059, Riverside Engineering & Design High School, Yonkers, NY

Musical Performance Award

Team 2872, The Wheatley School, Old Westbury, NY

* The Chairman’s Award is the most prestigious award of the event and recognizes the team that embodies the goals and purpose of FIRST and best represents a model for other teams to emulate.

** These teams are eligible to participate in the FRC Championship that will take place April 28-29 at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO.

SBPLI named Robert V. Kukta, Associate Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, and Frank Saladino, a former Technology Teacher at Plainview-Old Bethpage High School, as its Volunteers of the Year. The Fred Breithut Award went to Edwin Meyer of Brentwood High School Robotics Team #3460. Robert Gandalfo, mentor for the Plainedge High School Robotics Team #527, received the Regional Woodie Flowers Award. Winners of the Dean’s List Finalist Award were Emily Stern of the Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School Robotics Team #353 and Joshua Graber of the Great Neck South High School Robotics Team #2638.

Major sponsors for this year’s competition were SBPLI, Inc., Hofstra University, BAE Systems, BDS Strategic Solutions, Bethpage Federal Credit Union, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., Brookhaven National Laboratory, CEMS, DeVry College of New York, Estée Lauder Inc., Farmingdale State College, Festo Corporation, Ingerman Smith LLP, Motorola Solutions Foundation, Nassau Educators Federal Credit Union, North Atlantic Industries, Northrop Grumman, Schenck Trebel Corporation, School Construction Consultants, Scott Matovich and Family, Sidera Networks and Stony Brook University.