SBPLI Announces Award Winners of FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournaments

Members of the Jamaica College Secondary School Team (in blue) and the Hewlett High School Team attempt to move their robots with their controllers during one of the opening matches at the FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournament at Syosset High School on January 31.

New York City FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), along with School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. (SBPLI), presented the FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournaments on January 18 at Hewlett High School and January 31 at Syosset High School. Forty-nine teams from Long Island, the metropolitan New York area and the island country of Jamaica took part in the daylong competitions.

The FTC is a program through FIRST, which is an organization that focuses on teaching children and young adults STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) skills through stimulating robotics competitions. The FTC tournament requires students in grades seven through twelve to design, build, and program a robot to compete with in an alliance format against other teams. Each year, a different themed challenge is presented to those who participate in the tournament.

The challenge was “CASCADE EFFECT,” in which Alliances of two teams programmed their robots to collect balls and place them in the rolling goals. The number of points for each ball scored in the goal is based on the length of the ball tube and the ball height.

Following the tournaments, an award ceremony was presented by the FIRST judges. Different teams won trophies for various categories that represented a range of qualities, such as teamwork, creativity, and inspiration.

The winners from the January 18 Qualifying Tournament are listed below and are eligible to participate in the NYC/Long Island Regional Championship Event at NYU/Polytechnic School of Engineering in Brooklyn on March 1:

 




AWARD TEAM # TEAM NAME SCHOOL HOMETOWN
Motivate Award 3540 Roboboogie George W. Hewlett High School Hewlett, NY
Connect Award 7035 Radical Robots Girl Scouts of Suffolk County Commack, NY
Rockwell Collins Innovate Award 6438 Syosset Elite Syosset High School Syosset, NY
PTC Design Award 4487 Highlandbots Herricks High School New Hyde Park, NY
Think Award 4995 Titanium Tigers Francis Lewis High School Fresh Meadows, NY
Alliance Award Winner 8073 RPHS Quantum Chaos Rocky Point High School Rocky Point, NY
Alliance Award Winner 7890 Basement Lions 2 Horace Mann School Fresh Meadows, NY
Alliance Award Winner 8109 Half Hollow Heads Half Hollow Hills High School Dix Hills, NY
Alliance Award Finalist 9541 Xeno Gaels Kennedy Catholic High School Somers, NY
Alliance Award Finalist 9501 Robo Chicks Lynbrook Senior High School Lynbrook, NY
Alliance Award Finalist 6574 Task Main Lynbrook Senior High School Lynbrook, NY
Control Award 7890 Basement Lions 2 Horace Mann School Bronx, NY
Inspire Award 7890 Basement Lions 2 Horace Mann School Bronx, NY
Inspire Award 2nd Place 3540 Roboboogie George W. Hewlett High School Hewlett, NY
Inspire Award 3rd Place 4487 Highlandbots Herricks High School New Hyde Park, NY

 

The winners from the January 31 Qualifying Tournament are listed below and will be eligible for the NYC/Long Island Regional Championship Event at NYU/Polytechnic School of Engineering in Brooklyn on March 1:

 




AWARD TEAM # TEAM NAME SCHOOL HOMETOWN
Motivate Award 8503 GL #DYMEtics Gregorio Luperon High School for Science & Math New York, NY
Connect Award 7120 Bionica Hewlett High School Hewlett, NY
Rockwell Collins Innovate Award 6574 Task Main   Merrick, NY
PTC Design Award 4783 Dynamic Francis Lewis High School Fresh Meadows, NY
Think Award 3744 LREI Robotics Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School New York, NY
Alliance Award Winner 6574 Task Main   Merrick, NY
Alliance Award Winner 6942 Pandemonium2 West Babylon Senior High School West Babylon, NY
Alliance Award Winner 9371 General Relativity Dalton School New York, NY
Alliance Award Finalist 4780 Terraroids Francis Lewis High School Fresh Meadows, NY
Alliance Award Finalist 4783 Dynamic Francis Lewis High School Fresh Meadows, NY
Alliance Award Finalist 5283 LAIMO Lynbrook High School Lynbrook, NY
Control Award 123 Vanguard Syosset High School Syosset, NY
Inspire Award 5477 Inovo Hewlett High School Hewlett, NY
Inspire Award 2nd Place 4783 Dynamic Francis Lewis High School Fresh Meadows, NY
Inspire Award 3rd Place 8502 GL Tampoco Gregorio Luperon High School for Science & Math

New York, NY

 

 

Sponsors included School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc., Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools, Syosset Central School District, Rockwell Collins, and PTC.