SBPLI Announces Award Winners of FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournament in Lynbrook

Eight Teams Advance to Long Island Championships Scheduled for February 11

Members of roboPandas (Team #4017) of Sewanaka High School and CTRL ALT WIN (Team #8196) of Lynbrook High School attempt to control their robots during one of the elimination matches at the FIRST® Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournament that was held at Lynbrook High School on Sunday, January 8. 

Lynbrook High School was home to School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. (SBPLI)’s official FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology) Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournament, which took place on Sunday, January 8. During this, the first of three, qualifying event, 27 Long Island FIRST Tech Challenge teams, comprised of students age 12 to 18, used their problem-solving skills, creative thinking and sportsmanship to compete in this year's challenge, VELOCITY VORTEXSM.

 

Working along with their mentors, these students built and programmed robots for VELOCITY VORTEX, during which alliances of three teams attempt to score as many points as possible by scoring particles into their own center vortex or corner vortex and claiming beacons for their alliance by triggering them to illuminate their alliance color. At the end of the game, the color of the beacon determines the alliance credited for the successful claiming of the beacon.

 

After the conclusion of the event, teams were presented with a variety of awards, as follows:

 

AWARD TEAM # TEAM NAME HOMETOWN  
Motivate Award 3540 RoboBoogie Hewlett  
Connect Award 7120 Bionica Hewlett  
Rockwell Collins Innovate Award 5477 Innovo Hewlett  
PTC Design Award 4137 IslandBots Setauket  
Think Award 7407 Team VEGA Dix Hills  
Alliance Award Winners 8196 CTRL ALT WIN Lynbrook  
  4017 roboPandas Floral Park  
  4137 IslandBots Setauket  
Alliance Award Finalists 11988 Crusader Robotics Brookville  
  5477 Innovo Hewlett  
  8325 Oyster Bot Oyster Bay  
Inspire Award 4017 RoboPandas Floral Park  
Inspire Award 2nd Place 11401 Girl Powered Robotics (GPR) Bay Shore  
Inspire Award 3rd Place 11988 Crusader Robotics Brookville  

The following teams have advanced to the Long Island FIRST Tech Challenge Championships, which will take place on February 11 at Smithtown West High School:

 

TEAM #

TEAM NAME

SCHOOL

HOMETOWN

4017

roboPandas

Sewanhaka High School

Floral Park

4137

IslandBots

 

Setauket

5477

Innovo

Hewlett High School

Hewlett

7120

Bionica

Hewlett High School

Hewlett

7407

Team VEGA

Half Hollow Hills High School West

Dix Hills

8196

CTRL ALT WIN

Lynbrook High School

Lynbrook

11401

Girl Powered Robotics (GPR)

 

Bay Shore

11988

Crusader Robotics

Long Island Lutheran Middle & High School

Brookville

 

 

Local sponsors included School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. and Lynbrook Public Schools; national sponsors included Qualcomm, Rockwell Collins and PTC.

 

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