FIRST Long Island Regional FIRST® Robotics Competition To Be Held For 24th Consecutive Year

Ninety-Three Teams from Long Island, the U.S. and the World to Compete at Hofstra University for CHARGED UP(SM) Presented by Haas

March 17, 2023

Area students are charged up for the 24^th annual FIRST Long Island Regional FIRST^® Robotics Competition, which will be held in a double-header style, with tournaments March 21 to 22 and March 24 to 25 at Hofstra University’s David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex. Presented by FIRST Long Island, these back-to-back regionals feature 93 teams from across Long Island, New York State, the United States and around the world. These students, aged 14 to 18, utilize 120-pound robots to compete in alliance-style tournament rounds under this year’s challenge, dubbed CHARGED UP^SM Presented by Haas. Long Island residents are encouraged to attend to support these local high school students.

The FIRST Long Island Regionals feature teams of high school-aged students competing in a cooperative tournament-style robotics competition. Guided by their mentors, students rely on their skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to compete for honors and recognition that reward design excellence, competitive play and sportsmanship. This high-energy event further emphasizes the importance of high-impact partnerships between students, universities, businesses and communities.

In CHARGED UP^SM Presented by Haas, two alliances are invited to process game pieces to bring energy to their community. The alliances do this by retrieving their game pieces from substations and placing them into the grid. Human players provide the game pieces to the robots from the substations. In the last moments of each match, alliance robots race to dock or engage with their charge station.

Each match begins with a 15-second autonomous period, during which time alliance robots operate only on pre-programmed instructions to score points by leaving their communities, retrieving and scoring game pieces onto the grid and docking on or engaging with their charge stations. In the final two minutes and 15 seconds of the match, drivers take control of the robots and score points by continuing to retrieve and score their game pieces onto the grid and docking on or engaging with their charge stations. The alliance with the highest score at the end of the match wins.

This year marks the 24^th season of the FIRST Robotics Competition on Long Island by FIRST Long Island’s late Founder Fred Breithut, using his vision for the students of Long Island and the innovative program developed through FIRST. Mr. Breithut, a former educator, founded FIRST Long Island in 1984 to address the gap between the skills needed by Long Island’s business community and the relevant preparation provided by local school districts. In the first 15 years of its operation, FIRST Long Island formed over 100 successful partnerships between high schools and local businesses.

In 2000, the inaugural FIRST Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition was held under a tent at Suffolk Community College’s Ammerman Campus in Selden, with 23 teams participating; it was the first-ever Regional FIRST Robotics Competition held in New York State. Since then, FIRST Robotics Competition on Long Island has grown tremendously. In 2018, FIRST Long Island hosted 78 teams, requiring two, rather than one, Regional events. In 2019, the Long Island Regional hosted 85 teams, with 17 competing from foreign countries—the most in the Regional’s history at that time.

The presenting co-sponsor of this year’s competition is Zebra Technologies, a technology development company that provides industry-tailored, end-to-end technological solutions for retail/ecommerce, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, healthcare and other industries. FESTO Corporation has also announced that, once again, it is sponsoring the competition, as the company has done since the initial FIRST Robotics Competition Long Island Regional took place two decades ago.

The event is free to the public. Those in attendance are encouraged to cheer on their home teams, visit the teams’ pit areas to see firsthand how these students are able to program, repair and operate their robots. Visitors can also meet with FIRST Long Island representatives, who can explain to them the different tournaments the organization presents and how one can form a team.

“The FIRST Long Island Regional is an amazing way for students to showcase their talents in the STEM fields,” says Larry Toonkel, Co-Director, FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Long Island. “We are very excited to see what all our Long Island teams bring to the table, and to host teams from across the state, the country and even the world at our tournaments.”

“We are certain that these dual events will provide an even greater level of exhilaration for participating teams and give our local teams an added opportunity to advance to the Championships,” adds Bertram Dittmar, Executive Director, FIRST Long Island. “With an increasing number of Long Island FIRST Robotics Competition teams joining each year, we plan to continue to double the events in our region. But, in order to accomplish this goal, we’ll need the continued support of our valued schools, families, volunteers and donors.”

FIRST Long Island is the title sponsor of the FIRST Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition.

Captain of Innovation-level sponsors include Zebra Technologies, Optimum, Farmingdale State College School of Engineering Technology, FESTO Corporation, PMMI, PSEG, Hofstra University, Long Island University (LIU Post), Northrop Grumman, Canon USA, Investors Bank, School Construction Consultants, Schenck USA, SCOPE Education Services, STERI Technologies, Stony Brook University, Telephonics Corporation.

Friends of the Future-level sponsors include accessLinx, Inc.; Brookhaven Science Associates; Cradle of Aviation; The Dittmar Family; Engineers Joint Committee of Long Island (EJCLI); IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Stern Family.

Team No.	Team Name	School/Organization	Hometown
28	Pierson Whalers	Pierson Middle/High School	Sag Harbor
329	Mohawks	Patchogue Medford Senior High School	Medford
333	MEGALODONS	John Dewey High School	Brooklyn, NY
334	TechKnights	Brooklyn Technical High School	Brooklyn, NY
369	High Voltage Robotics	Tech High School	Brooklyn, NY
496	Royals	Earl Vandermeulen High School	Port Jefferson
527	Red Dragons	Plainedge High School	Massapequa
545	ROBO-DAWGS	Island Trees High School	Levittown
569	Rambots 569	East Meadow Kiwanis & Home School	Westbury
810	The Mechanical Bulls	Smithtown High School (East & West)	Smithtown
870	TEAM R.I.C.E	Southold High School (Junior & Senior)	Southold
1155	SciBorgs	Bronx High School of Science	Bronx, NY
1468	Hicksville J-Birds	Hicksville High School	Hicksville
1546	Chaos, Inc.	Baldwin Senior High School	Baldwin
2027	Robotic Dragons	Westbury High School	Old Westbury
2161	Robocats	Walt Whitman High School	Huntington Station
2265	Fe Maidens	Bronx High School of Science	Bronx, NY
2347	Trial and Error	Walter G O’Connell Copiague High School	Copiague
2638	Rebel Robotics	Great Neck South High School	Great Neck
2869	Regal Eagles	Bethpage High School	Bethpage
2872	CyberCats	Wheatley School	Old Westbury
2875	CyberHawks	Cold Spring Harbor High School (Junior & Senior)	Cold Spring Harbor
3015	Ranger Robotics	Spencerport High School	Spencerport
3137	T-Birds	Connetquot Senior High School	Bohemia
3171	HURRICANES	Westhampton Beach High School	Westhampton Beach
3950	RoboGym Robotics	North Shore High School	Glen Head
4122	Ossining O-Bots	Ossining High School	Ossining
4458	Infernobotix	Center Moriches High School	Center Moriches
5016	Huntington Robotics	Huntington High School	Huntington
5959	Team Supreme	Bridgehampton School	Bridgehampton
5736	Kingsman Robotics	Kings Park High School	Kings Park
6401	8-bit RAMs	Clarkstown North High School	New City, NY
6423	Ward Melville Iron Patriots	Ward Melville Senior High School	East Setauket
6593	HyperDrive Robotics	Richmond Hill High School	Richmond Hill
6969	Cyborgs6969	Clarkstown South High School	West Nyack
7004	Ossining Owls	Ossining High School	Ossining
7497	MARAHO	Taipei Municipal ChengGong Senior High School	Taipei, TPE
7636	Robomania	National Experimental High School at Central Taiwan Science Park	Daya Dist., TXG
7673	Formosan Sika	Heng Yee Catholic High School	New Taipei City, NWT
7759	Bulldog Bytes	Irvington High School	Irvington
8267	Riptide Robotics 8267	Long Beach High School	Long Beach
8595	This Is How We Play	New Taipei City Ger-Jyh	New Taipei City, NWT
8760	SOUND OF DIDYMA 1	OZEL ALTIN ADIM OZEL EGİTİM VE REHABİLİTASYON MERKEZİ	DIDIM
9016 *	Syosset Braves Robotics	Syosset High School	Syosset

The list of teams participating in the 2023 FIRST Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition #2 (March 24-25), is as follows:

Team No.	Team Name	School/Organization	Hometown
263	Aftershock	Sachem High School (North & East)	Ronkonkoma
271	Mechanical Marauders	Bay Shore Senior High School	Bay Shore
287	Floyd Robotics	William Floyd High School	Mastic Beach
329	Mohawks	Patchogue-Medford High School	Medford
353	POBots	John F Kennedy High School	Plainview
358	Robotic Eagles	Hauppauge High School	Hauppague
514	Entropy	Miller Place High School	Miller Place
527	Red Dragons	Plainedge Senior High School	Massapequa
533	The PSIcotics	Lindenhurst Senior High School	Lindenhurst
564	Longwood Robotics	Longwood High School	Middle Island
601	BayBots	Hampton Bays High School	Hampton Bays
694	StuyPulse	Stuyvesant High School	New York, NY
806	The Brooklyn Blacksmiths	Xaverian High School	Brooklyn, NY
870	TEAM R.I.C.E.	Southold High School (Junior & Senior)	Southold
871	Robotechs	West Islip Senior High School	West Islip
884	Mechanical Mules	Malverne Senior High School	Malverne
1468	Hicksville J-Birds	Hicksville High School	Hicksville
1554	Oceanside Robotics	Home School	Oceanside
1796	RoboTigers	Queens Technical High School	Queens
1803	Vikings	Paul D Schreiber High School	Port Washington
1880	Warriors of East Harlem	East Harlem Tutoring Program	New York, NY
2487	Mechanical Animals	Sayville High School	West Sayville
2601	Steel Hawks	Townsend Harris High School	Flushing
2638	Rebel Robotics	Great Neck South High School	Great Neck
2869	Regal Eagles	Bethpage High School	Bethpage
2872	CyberCats	Wheatley School	Old Westbury
2875	CyberHawks	Cold Spring Harbor High School (Junior & Senior)	Cold Spring Harbor
3204	Steampunk Penguins	Mary Louis Academy	Jamaica Estates
3419	RoHawks	Hunter College High School	New York, NY
3624	ThunderColts	Half Hollow Hills High School (East & West)	Huntington Station
4567	The Mechanized Mafia	Seaford High School	Seaford
4571	Rambots	Manhattan Center Science & Math	New York, NY
5099	Northport Robotics	Northport High School	Northport
5298	E-TECH CHARGERS	Energy Tech High School	Astoria
5599	The Sentinels	Benjamin N Cardozo High School	Bayside
5659	Team Supreme	Bridgehampton School	Bridgehampton
5736	Kingsmen Robotics	Kings Park High School	Kings Park
6636	Full Metal Beavers	Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences	Jamaica, NY
6806	Mineola Wild Reds	Mineola High School	Mineola
6911	SO BOTZ	Tappan Zee High School	Orangeburg
6969	Cyborgs6969	Clarkstown South Senior High School	West Nyack
7673	Formosan Sika	Heng Yee Catholic High School	New Taipei City, NWT
7717	Steam Punks	St. Michael’s School	Santo Domingo, DR
8595	This Is How We Play	New Taipei City Ger-Jyh	New Taipei City, NWT
8739	Redhawk Robotics	High School for Construction Trades, Engineering & Architecture	Ozone Park
9016	Syosset Braves Robotics	Syosset High School	Syosset
9184	Zeta	Sevenoaks School	Sevenoaks, ENG

* Denotes a rookie team.

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