Forty Local FIRST LEGO League Teams Head to Long Island Championship

Event to Take Place at Longwood High School on Sunday, March 4
SBPLI FIRST LEGO League Team No. 36549 Mineola Qualifier

Following a series of six qualifiers, 40 FIRST® LEGO® League teams from across Nassau and Suffolk Counties are set to compete at the SBPLI Long Island Championship at Longwood High School on Sunday, March 4. During the event, presented by School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. (SBPLI), students (ages nine to 14) and their mentors from the program will present their LEGO robots that best address the “Challenge” set forth in this year’s theme – FIRST HYDRO DYNAMICSSM.

Throughout the season, these teams were among the more than 190 that worked hard to research, design, build, program and test LEGO robots that address a problem within the human water cycle. Students were first tasked with identifying the problem - it could be something as simple as quenching one’s thirst or swimming in a pool, or as complicated as how water is used to produce food, energy and even technology, among other things. Once a problem was identified, the students then evaluated current solutions that add value to society, developed an innovative solution, and subsequently presented their project to the Judges. In addition, using a LEGO MINDSTORMS® kit, they designed and built a robot to solve missions on the competition tables.

FIRST LEGO League introduces young people to the excitement of learning with its partner The LEGO Group. Students are encouraged to explore and pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields both within the FIRST program and in their future education and careers.

Students presented their solutions during one of six different Qualifier tournaments that were held at Great Hollow Middle School and Mineola High School in late January and early February. Teams that competed at the Qualifiers worked to earn an opportunity to advance to the SBPLI FIRST LEGO League Championship at Longwood High School on Sunday, March 4.

The full list of 40 teams that earned the chance to compete in the Championship tournament are noted below. These teams will work to earn the chance to advance to the FIRST World Festival in Detroit on April 28.

“We had a great FIRST LEGO League season on Long Island and we are looking forward to our final event at Longwood,” says Stephanie Stern, Co-Program Director and SBPLI/FIRST Long Island representative. “Every year, we are amazed at the skills that our students acquire from this program – be it teamwork and sportsmanship or science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. As we continue to add new teams and events, we project continued growth among FIRST LEGO League students in the years to come.”

For more information on SBPLI and the FIRST Long Island complement of programs, or to become a sponsor, please visit www.sbpli-lifirst.org.

 

The following 40 teams have advanced to the Long Island FIRST LEGO League Championships, which will take place on Sunday, March 4 at Longwood High School:

Number

Name

Town

92

Sea Lions

Seaford

684*

STOBOR

Syosset

1087

BRAINSTORMERS

Bayport

1139*

HBT BOTS

Syosset

1200

Unlimited Thinkers

New Hyde Park

2182

Longwood – League of Lions

Middle Island

2438*

Floral Park HydroBots

Floral Park

5357*

Imagination in a Nutshell

Jericho

6116

Rocky Point Robo Eagles

Rocky Point

7854

Hydro Hackers

Port Jefferson

8085

Rocky Point Radical Robotix

Rocky Point

8838

Garden City Aquabots

Garden City

9556

Robophantoms

Bayport

10425

Haborfields Library Purple LEGO Eaters

Centerport

11298

Progressive School LEGO Jedi #7

Merrick

11362

The Water Wizards

Stony Brook

15067*

RoboFalcons

Jericho

15261

Rocken Robos

Plainview

15491

Dawnwood Hydrologists

Centereach

15794

Cyber Dogs

Roslyn

16282

Floral Park – Party Bots 2.0

Floral Park

16374

Robo Innovators

East Meadow

20757

LYSA Rusty Robots

Middle Island

22382

Oregon Robotics

Medford

22698

POBOTS OMEGA 2.0

Plainview

22699

POBOTS BETA 2.0

Plainview

23094*

Floydbots

Shirley

23785

Meteorites Squared

Hicksville

24093

Tech Heroes

Westbury

24601

AU

Manhasset

26166

ROBOTICUS Maximus

Island Park

28235

MDQ C – Fiji

Brentwood

28779

Bethpage RoboEagles

Bethpage

29491

ThingEMObob

East Moriches

32456

ENR-G

Glen Head

33022

Ninejagos

Old Westbury

33405

Techno Clan

Great Neck

35848

Quake Robotics

Saint James

36241

STEAMBots

Amityville

*Denotes the teams which were the presented with the “Champions” Award at each team’s respective Qualifier Tournament.