About the FIRST Robotics Competition
About the SBPLI, INC. - LI FIRST Long Island Regional
2008-2009 Schedule of Events
Competing High Schools
Sponsors
2008 SBPLI Newsletter
2009 Competition Results
About the FIRST Robotics Competition
The FIRST Robotics Competition is a national program that challenges teams of students and their mentors to design and build a 130 pound robot in a six-week timeframe using a standard "kit of parts" and a common set of rules. Teams build robots from the parts and enter them in a series of competitions designed by Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers. The International Competition has grown to more than 1,303 teams competing in 37 Regional Events, including Israel and Brazil.
FIRST redefines winning for these students. Based upon developing team workskills, teams are rewarded for excellence in design, demonstrated team spirit, gracious professionalism and maturity, and ability to overcome obstacles. Scoring the most points is a secondary goal. Winning means building partnerships that last.
For more information, visit the FIRST web site (www.usfirst.org) or contact us.
About the SBPLI, INC. - LI FIRST Regional
SBPLI, INC. was founded in 1984 by its President, Fred Breithut, with the goal of developing partnerships between local high schools and businesses on Long Island that would provide students with practical experience, while helping the business community develop its future workforce. Over 100 partnerships have been formed. In 1999, SBPLI founded Long Island FIRST for the purpose of developing a Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics competition. The Long Island Regional has grown from 8 teams (school districts) in 1999 to over 45 teams in 2008. The increase in participation among high school students and local business demonstrates the importance of supporting the Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition.
2009-2010 Schedule of Events
5th Annual Deer Park Invitational
FRC Off-Season Event
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Hosted by Deer Park High School
Cost is $250 per team
Please contact Chuck Burg to register
burg.c@DeerParkSchools.org
2008-2009 Schedule of Events
2009 Kick-Off at Stony Brook University
Jacob Javits
Center - Room 100
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Saturday, January 3, 2009
40 Long Island Teams will learn the 2009 game via satellite transmission from FIRST headquarters in New Hampshire and will pick up their kit of parts to begin designing and building their robots.
2009 Competition at Hofstra University
March 26-28, 2009
2009 Championship Event at Atlanta's Georgia Dome
April 16-18, 2009
Thursday, March 26
- 7:45 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Set-up and practice
Friday, March 27
- 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Opening Ceremony
- 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Robotics Competition
- 4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Day one awards ceremony
- 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. - VIP Reception
Saturday, March 28
- 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Opening Ceremony
- 9:30 a.m. - 11:45 p.m. - Robotics Competition
- 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Playoff matches and awards
*Schedule subject to change. All times are estimated based on flow of rounds. See Pit Administration table for updated times.
2008
SBPLI-LI FIRST Newsletter
Includes reports of the 2008 robotics competition, sponsorship information, awards, and scholarships.
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2009 Robotics Competition Awards
For information about the results of the 2009 competion, read the report and full press release.
Award |
Winner |
| Regional Chairman's Award* (Highest award of the competition) | Team 353, Trio Hardware/Ausco, Inc. & Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District, Plainview, NY |
| Reginal Engineering Inspiration Award (Second highest award of the competition) | Team 1601, GIT General Imaging Technology/The Port Authority of NY & NJ/The White House Restaurant/The Safa Center, New Wave Holistic Health Center/ Airborn Flightware & Aviation High School, Long Island City, NY |
| Regional Winner #1 | Team 496, Port Jefferson Robotics Club, Port Jefferson, NY |
| Regional Winner #2 | Team 2638, Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, NY |
| Regional Winner #3 | Team 287, Brookhaven National Lab & William Floyd HS, Mastic Beach, NY |
| Regional Finalist #1 | Team 353, Trio Hardware/Ausco Inc. & Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District, Plainview, NY |
| Regional Finalist #2 | Team 329, Motorola & Patchogue-Medford High School, Medford, NY |
| Regional Finalist #3 | Team 527, Plainedge High School Red Dragons, No. Massapequa, NY |
| Chrysler Team Spirit Award | Team 564, Longwood High School, Middle Island, NY |
| Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award | Team 1468, BAE SYSTEMS & Hicksville High School, Hicksville, NY |
| General Motors Industrial Design Award | Team 870, Miller Environmental/Westhampton Glass and Metal/Lewis Marine Supply of Greenport/Westhampton True Value Hardware/Hart’s True Value Hardware/ North Fork Sanitation/Silicon Valley/ Southold PBA/Conway/Port of Egypt Marine/Southold Agway, Southold, NY |
| Johnson & Johnson Gracious Professionalism | Team 358, Festo/East-West Industries & Hauppauge High School, Hauppauge, NY |
| Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award | Team 329, Motorola & Patchogue-Medford High School, Medford, NY |
| Motorola Quality Award | Team 102, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics & Somerville High School, Somerville, NJ |
| Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award | Team 271, AUDIBLE.COM/BAE Systems/Verizon/Bad Boys From Bay Shore Ltd. & Bay Shore High School, Bay Shore, NY |
| Xerox Creativity Award | Team 810, Smithtown Schools, Smithtown, NY |
| Highest Rookie Seed Award | Team 2875, Cold Spring Harbor High School, Cold Spring Harbor, NY |
| Imagery Award | Team 1358, Macarthur Generals, Levittown, NY |
| Underwriters Laboratory Industrial Safety Award | Team 2638, Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, NY |
| Rookie All Star Award | Team 2875, Cold Spring Harbor High School, Cold Spring Harbor, NY |
| Rookie Inspiration Award | Team 2869, NASA & Bethpage Union Free School District, Bethpage, NY |
| Website Award | Team 353, Trio Hardware/Ausco Inc. & Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District, Plainview, NY |
| Judges Award | Team 287, Brookhaven National Lab and William Floyd High School, Mastic Beach, NY |
| Judges Award | Team 533, ITT Industries/BAE SYSTEMS/L3 Communications Narda Microwave & Lindenhurst Senior High School, Lindenhurst, NY |
| Musical Theme | Team 1803, Paul D. Schreiber H.S., Port Washington, NY |
| Greening Award | Team 871, West Islip High School, West Islip, NY |
* 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. In addition to the awards given by LI FIRST Regional, SBPLI named Jim Stephenson, Nick Amoruso and Will Recce as Outstanding Volunteers of the year. The Fred Breithut Award went to Daniel Brooks of Longwood High School Robotics Team #564. Debbie Lang, mentor for the Longwood High School Robotics Team #564, received the Woodie Flowers Award. Major sponsors for this year’s competition were are New York State Sen. Owen Johnson, FESTO, Hofstra University, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. Other sponsors include Stony Brook University, Farmingdale State College, DeVry College of New York, and Ziehm Medical, LLC. |
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