FIRST Long Island Announces Award Winners from the 2022 SBPLI Long Island Regional #2

Blue Alliance robots from Team #1796 “RoboTigers” from Queens Technical High School and Team #1496 “Hicksville J-Birds” from Hicksville High School

Blue Alliance robots from Team #1796 “RoboTigers” from Queens Technical High School and Team #1496 “Hicksville J-Birds” from Hicksville High School attempt to score their cargo into the hub during the finals of the 2022 SBPLI Long Island Regional #2. The FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition event was held on March 24-26 at Hofstra University’s David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex in Hempstead.

School-Business Partnerships of Long Island (SBPLI), Inc. DBA FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Long Island presented its 2022 SBPLI Long Island Regional #2 on March 24-26 at Hofstra University’s David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex in Hempstead. Forty-five teams from Long Island, New York City, upstate New York, the Dominican Republic, India, Turkey and Puerto Rico took part in the three-day FIRST Robotics Competition. This event culminated with awards and honors for areas such as design excellence, competitive play, sportsmanship and high-impact partnerships among schools, businesses and communities.
 
The winner of the 2022 SBPLI Long Island Regional #2 was the three-team alliance made up of “Team R.I.C.E” (Team #870) from Southold High School, “StuyPulse” (Team #694) from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and Team #2869 “Regal Eagles” from Bethpage High School. “Hicksville J-Birds” (Team #1468) from Hicksville High School took home the coveted Chairman’s Award, which is the event’s most prestigious award. It recognizes the team that best embodies the goals and purpose of FIRST and that best represents a model for other teams to emulate. “Real Eagles” (Team #2869) from Bethpage High School won the Regional Engineering Inspiration Award. The Wildcard went to “Redhawk Robotics” (Team #8739) from the High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture from Ozone Park. These teams are now eligible to compete at the 2022 FIRST Championship at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas from April 20-23.
 
Peter Beninati, Team Mentor, Team #1796 “RoboTigers” from Queens Technical High School, was named a Finalist for the Woodie Flowers Award. Winners of the Dean’s List Finalist Award were Christopher Palazzo from Team #871 “Robotechs” from West Islip Senior High School and John Galletta from Team #810 “The Mechanical Bulls” from Smithtown High School-East & Smithtown High School-West.
 
“This was one of the best SBPLI Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competitions we’ve experienced,” says Bertram Dittmar, Executive Director, SBPLI. “All participating teams demonstrated tremendous teamwork, gracious professionalism™ and critical thinking. The fun and excitement of the competition was evident as many students and mentors got caught up in the spirit of the event. Participants, volunteers, and sponsors had the opportunity to experience the beauty of engineering and technology combined with the excitement of a competitive event.”
 
As a FIRST® Robotics Competition, the SBPLI Long Island Regional featured teams of high school-aged students from across Long Island, the New York metropolitan area and even around the world 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.
 
This year’s competition was dubbed RAPID REACTSM presented by The Boeing Company. In RAPID REACT, two competing alliances are invited to process cargo for transportation. Each alliance is assigned a cargo color to process by retrieving their assigned cargo and scoring it into the hub. Human players assist the cargo retrieval and scoring efforts from within their terminals. In the final moments of each match, alliance robots race to engage with their hangar to prepare for transport.

The Full List of Winners of the 2022 SBPLI Long Island Regional #2 Awards Include:

AWARD

TEAM #

TEAM NAME

SCHOOL/TOWN

Imagery Award in honor of

Jack Kamen

5298

E-TECH CHARGERS

Energy Tech High School/

Astoria

Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award

694

StuyPulse

Stuyvesant High School/

New York

Rockwell Automation Creativity Award

564

Longwood Robotics

Longwood High School/

Middle Island

Delphi Excellence in Engineering Award

810

The Mechanical Bulls

Smithtown High School-East & Smithtown High School-West/

Smithtown

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award

2601

Steel Hawks

Townsend Harris High School/

Flushing

General Motors Industrial Design Award

287

Floyd Robotics

William Floyd High School/

Mastic Beach

Ford Autonomous Award

870

TEAM R.I.C.E.

Southold Jr. Sr. High School/

Southold

Motorola Solutions Foundation Quality Award

2791

Shaker Robotics

Shaker High School/Latham, NY

Johnson & Johnson Gracious Professionalism

1554

Oceanside Robotics

School 7 Oceanside High School/Oceanside

FCA Foundation

Team Spirit Award

7717

Steam Punks

St. Michael’s School/Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Judges’ Award

6806

Mineola Wild Reds

Mineola High School/Mineola

Regional Finalist #1

1468

Hicksville J-Birds

Hicksville High School/Hicksville

Regional Finalist #2

1796

RoboTigers

Queens Technical High School/

Queens

Regional Finalist #3

271

Mechanical Marauders

Bay Shore High School/

Bay Shore

Regional Winner #1**

694

StuyPulse

Stuyvesant High School/

New York

Regional Winner #2**

870

TEAM R.I.C.E.

Southold Jr. Sr. High School/

Southold

Regional Winner #3**

2869

Regal Eagles

Bethpage High School/Bethpage

Regional Engineering Inspiration Award**

2869

Regal Eagles

Bethpage High School/Bethpage

Regional Chairman’s

Award* **

1468

Hicksville J-Birds

Hicksville High School/Hicksville

Wildcard **

8739

Redhawk Robotics

High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture/Ozone Park

Highest Rookie Seed

8739

Redhawk Robotics

High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture/Ozone Park

Rookie All Star Award

8739

Redhawk Robotics

High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture/Ozone Park

* 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.
** These teams are eligible to participate in the 2019 FIRST® Championship presented by Qualcomm® Incorporated at either the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas on April 20-23.
*** Denotes a rookie team.