The FIRST® Tech Challenge season – dubbed FIRST RELIC RECOVERYSM (presented by Qualcomm) – will culminate this weekend with the SBPLI Long Island Championship tournament. Presented locally by School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. (SBPLI), FIRST® Tech Challenge inspires students age 12 to 18 to pursue an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Twenty-four teams (noted below) from across Long Island will compete in the event at Smithtown High School West on Sunday, February 11.

 

The participating teams earned the opportunity to compete during one of five regional qualifying tournaments that took place at Lynbrook, Center Moriches and Sewanhaka High Schools throughout the month of January. Working alongside adult mentors, more than 46,000 students in nearly 20 countries have spent the last several months designing, building, programming and operating robots to play a floor game in an alliance format on a 12-foot by 12-foot field. This season, FIRST Tech Challenge teams across the world were asked to don their adventurers’ hats to create robots capable of retrieving opponent-colored jewels from platforms, scoring glyphs into crypto boxes, creating cipher patterns, moving “relics” to a recovery zone and parking their robots on “balancing stones.”

 

During the FIRST Tech Challenge events, students demonstrate their problem-solving skills, creative thinking, teamwork, competitive play, sportsmanship and sense of community. Teams work to score points, awarded through accomplishing the aforementioned tasks, during 150 seconds of game play, which includes autonomous and driver-controlled periods.

 

Three teams from the FIRST Long Island Championship will go on to the Super-Regional Championship Tournament “East” in Scranton, Pennsylvania, March 16-18, 2018. Teams at the Super-Regional will compete for the opportunity to advance to the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship in Detroit, April 25-28, 2018.

 

“One hundred fifteen local teams competed at regional tournaments this season for an opportunity to participate in the SBPLI Long Island Championship,” says Janet Anderson, Program Director and SBPLI/FIRST Long Island representative. “FIRST Tech Challenge has grown into a powerful program for students across Long Island, and we are excited to see which teams will continue on to the Super-Regional in Scranton as representatives of Long Island’s STEM talent.”

 

For more information on SBPLI or FIRST Tech Challenge, please visit www.sbpli-lifirst.org.

 

Team Number

Team Name

Town

3540

RoboBoogie

Hewlett

4017

roboPandas

Floral Park

4137

IslandBots

East Setauket

5477

Innovo

East Setauket

6574

Task Main

Lynbrook

7120

Bionica

Hewlett

7164

FalconBots

Locust Valley

7407

Team VEGA

Dix Hills

8109

RISE Robotics

Dix Hills

8110

WiSE

Dix Hills

8196

CTRL ALT WIN

Lynbrook

9421

Hydrofluoric Robotics

Greenlawn

9501

Zero to Robo

Lynbrook

10169

Mineola Motors

Mineola

10419

Syosset Elite

Syosset

10696

Syosset Syborgs

Syosset

11088

STOBOR

Syosset

11401

Girl Powered Robotics (GPR)

Bay Shore

11517

Digital Darlings

Garden City

11988

Crusader Robotics

Glen Head

12824

Raiders of the Lost Bot

Bayport

12899

Bellport Clippers

Brookhaven

13752

Xenon

Greenlawn

13847

At Least it Didn’t Explode

Greenlawn