Winners Announced At FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournament

Alliance team members graciously "high-five" one another after a job well-done following one of the initial matches at the FTC Qualifying Tournament at Hewlett High School on January 19.

 

On January 19, School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. (SBPLI) and New York City FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) presented the FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournament at Hewlett High School.

The challenge was "FTC ® BLOCK PARTY!SM", in which Alliances of two teams programmed their robots to place plastic blocks onto pendulum goals. During the two-and-a-half-minute match, both Alliances also had to raise their team flag up a flagpole, elevate their robots off the ground using a platform pull-up bar, and finish the match with a balanced pendulum to earn extra points. 

An award ceremony followed the competition. Winners are listed below:

AWARD

TEAM #

TEAM NAME

HOMETOWN

Motivate Award

4487

Droid Bots

New Hyde Park, NY

Connect Award

4183

Icebreakers

Merrick, NY

Rockwell Collins Innovate Award

4326

Basement Lions

Bronx, NY

PTC Design Award

6719

PioTech

Queens, NY

Think Award *

3540

Roboboogie

Hewlett, NY

Judge's Award

7890

Space Lions

Bronx, NY

Alliance Award Winner

5477

Innovo

Hewlett, NY

Alliance Award Winner *+

4137

Islandbots

Stony Brook, NY

Alliance Award Finalist

8196

Control Alt Win

Lynbrook, NY

Alliance Award Finalist *++

4326

Basement Lions

Bronx, NY

Inspire Award 1st Place *

5477

Innovo

Hewlett, NY

Inspire Award 2nd Place *

4487

Droid Bots

New Hyde Park, NY

Inspire Award 3rd Place *

7890

Space Lions

Bronx, NY

* Indicates that these teams will move onto the NYC/Long Island Regional Championship Event at NYC/Polytechnic Institute on March 8. + The Island Bots were the first team selected to the Winning Alliance and will compete in the NYC/Long Island regional Championship (Please note: Team #7120, "Bionica" from Hewlett, hosted the event and will also attend the NYC/Long Island Regional Championship.) ++ Horace Mann was captain of the Alliance Finalist and will compete in the NYC/Long Island Regional Championship. Sponsors included Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools, Rockwell Collins, FTC CAD and Collaboration, PTC, Merrill Lynch, Bloomberg, Con Edison, and Goldman Sachs and Friends.