2009 FIRST Robotics Competition Awards

Award

Winner

Regional Chairman's Award* (Highest award of the robotics competition)

Team 353, Trio Hardware / Ausco, Inc. & Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District, Plainview, NY

Reginal Engineering Inspiration Award (Second highest award of the robotics competition)

Team 1601, GIT General Imaging Technology/ The Port Authority of NY & NJ / The White House Restaurant / The Safa Center, New Wave Holistic Health Center / Airborn Flightware & Aviation High School, Long Island City, NY

Regional Winner #1

Team 496, Port Jefferson Robotics Club, Port Jefferson, NY

Regional Winner #2

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

Regional Winner #3

Team 287, Brookhaven National Lab & William Floyd HS, Mastic Beach, NY

Regional Finalist #1

Team 353, Trio Hardware / Ausco Inc. & Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District, Plainview, NY

Regional Finalist #2

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

Regional Finalist #3

Team 527, Plainedge High School Red Dragons, No. Massapequa, NY

Chrysler Team Spirit Award

Team 564, Longwood High School, Middle Island, NY

Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award

Team 1468, BAE SYSTEMS & Hicksville High School, Hicksville, NY

General Motors Industrial Design Award

Team 870, Miller Environmental / Westhampton Glass and Metal / Lewis Marine Supply of Greenport / Westhampton True Value Hardware / Hart’s True Value Hardware / North Fork Sanitation / Silicon Valley / Southold PBA / Conway / Port of Egypt Marine / Southold Agway, Southold, NY

Johnson & Johnson Gracious Professionalism

Team 358, Festo / East-West Industries & Hauppauge High School, Hauppauge, NY

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award

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

Motorola Quality Award

Team 102, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics & Somerville High School, Somerville, NJ

Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award

Team 271, AUDIBLE.COM/BAE Systems / Verizon / Bad Boys From Bay Shore Ltd. & Bay Shore High School, Bay Shore, NY

Xerox Creativity Award

Team 810, Smithtown Schools, Smithtown, NY

Highest Rookie Seed Award

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

Imagery Award

Team 1358, Macarthur Generals, Levittown, NY

Underwriters Laboratory Industrial Safety Award

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

Rookie All Star Award

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

Rookie Inspiration Award

Team 2869, NASA & Bethpage Union Free School District, Bethpage, NY

Website Award

Team 353, Trio Hardware/Ausco Inc. & Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District, Plainview, NY

Judges Award

Team 287, Brookhaven National Lab and William Floyd High School, Mastic Beach, NY

Judges Award

Team 533, ITT Industries / BAE SYSTEMS / L3 Communications Narda Microwave & Lindenhurst Senior High School, Lindenhurst, NY

Musical Theme

Team 1803, Paul D. Schreiber H.S., Port Washington, NY

Greening Award

Team 871, West Islip High School, West Islip, 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.

In addition to the awards given by LI FIRST Regional, SBPLI named Jim Stephenson, Nick Amoruso and Will Recce as Outstanding Volunteers of the year. The Fred Breithut Award went to Daniel Brooks of Longwood High School Robotics Team #564. Debbie Lang, mentor for the Longwood High School Robotics Team #564, received the Woodie Flowers Award.

Major sponsors for this year’s competition were are New York State Sen. Owen Johnson, FESTO, Hofstra University, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. Other sponsors include Stony Brook University, Farmingdale State College, DeVry College of New York, and Ziehm Medical, LLC.