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With school districts managing rising costs and tighter budgets, important programs face cuts or elimination. The School Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. is highlighting the importance of middle school and high school robotics programs with its support of the Fourth Annual Deer Park Invitational. The post season robotics competition is to be held in the gymnasium at Deer Park High School on Saturday, October 25 from 9:00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

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The School Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. (SBPLI) is proud to announce its 25/10 year anniversary — an anniversary celebrating 25 years of inaugurating and developing school-business partnerships, and 10 years of sponsoring the LI FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition to better prepare students for entering the workforce and establishing their career paths in math, science-engineering and technology fields.

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Fred Breithut, Founder and President of Melville-based School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, is working to gain recognition for Long Islanders who, even at the age of 60 and over, are still contributing to making the Long Island way of life one of the finest in the nation.

In an effort to bolster Mr. Breithut's efforts to recognize those older individuals in Long Island, SBPLI will have its "Sixty Over Sixty" Awards Gala on Thursday, October...

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The School - Business Partnerships of Long Island (SBPLI), sponsor of the Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition is proud to announce that six Long Island high school students from the 2007-2008 LI-First Robotics competition have been awarded scholarships, valued at $223,000, from accredited institutions in the field of technology.

The six students, Wayne Young, Comsewogue; Hector Flores, Great Neck South;Nicholas Joniak, West Babylon; ...

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Hofstra University's Arena to watch 46 teams of high school students compete at the SBPLI, Inc. Long Island Regional Robotics competition. The students’ goal was to earn a spot at the FIRST Championship, to be held April 17 through 19 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA.  Teams received honors and recognition that rewarded design excellence, competitive play, sportsmanship and high-impact partnerships between schools, businesses and communities.

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All 17 experienced teams participated in the Deer Park Invitational. Copiague and Sewanhaka participated as pre-rookies.

The Award for the Invitational Winners went to the three team alliance of Team 871 from West Islip, Team 369 from Grady HS in Brooklyn, and Team 270from Deer Park.

The Award for the Invitational Finalists went to Team 555 from Montclair, NJ, Team 1751 from Comsewogue, and Team 271 from Bay Shore.

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With school districts managing rising costs and tighter budgets, important programs face cuts or elimination. The School Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. is highlighting the importance of middle school and high school robotics programs with its support of theThird Annual Deer Park Invitational. The post season robotics competition is to be held in the gymnasium at Deer Park High School on Saturday, October 20 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Hauppauge High School’s Robotic Team Demonstrates Their Winning Design

Fred Breithut, Founder and Chairman of SBPLI, Inc.-LI First is pictured surrounded by student members of the Hauppauge High School Robotics Team, the Robotics Eagles, and taking a closer look at the team's robot.

Joining the students at the far right are (left to right) Rob Wankmuller, Hauppauge High School Science Department Chairperson; Mark McLeod, manager of the Cyberwarfare Integration Network at Northrop Grumman and mentor of the Eagles Team;...

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On March 30th and 31st, thousands of spectators gathered in Hempstead at Hofstra University's Arena to watch 41 teams of high school students compete at the SBPLI, Inc. Long Island Regional Robotics competition. The students' goal was to earn a spot at the FIRST USA Championship, to be held April 12th through 14th at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta GA. Twenty teams received honors and recognition that rewarded design excellence, competitive play, sportsmanship and high-impact...

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The School-Business Partnerships of Long Island (SBPLI), sponsor of the Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition, announced that students from 40 high schools, including 34 local school districts, have been tasked with the challenge and excitement of designing and building an original robot culminating in the Long Island FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Regional Competition. The competition will be held March 30 and 31 at Hofstra...

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What do you get when you bring together a group of outstanding educators, administrators, board members, corporate executives, community leaders and volunteers? You get the most influential people for public education in Nassau County, an honor bestowed upon 14 individuals by Nassau BOCES through its inaugural “Education Partner” awards program.

Education’s answer to the “Oscars,” the Nassau BOCES “Education Partner” award recognizes those whose...

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Baldwin Team Created the SBPLI Theme Music

Baldwin High School was one of more than 30 teams to attend the 2007 Kickoff for this year’s FIRST Robotics Competition. They gathered with participating Long Island high schools on Saturday, January 6th at Stony Brook University for a presentation and simulcast broadcast from New Hampshire. After the presentation, each team received a kit of parts to help them build a 120 pound robot. The teams will have six weeks to construct the robot and prepare for the upcoming...

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In an effort to facilitate networking opportunities for its alumni, the School - Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. recently launched a new system on its Web site that allows technology and engineering graduates who have participated in SBPLI’s regional robotics competition to contact sponsor companies.

By submitting contact information at www.sbpli-...

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A spirit of cooperation and teamwork permeated the gymnasium at Deer Park High School on Saturday, October 21, 2006 as robots took center court during the Deer Park Invitational. The invitational is a yearly offseason robotics competition sponsored by the Deer Park UFSD, School Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc (SBPLI) and Long Island FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). Friendly competition coaxed problem solving skills and stellar...

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On March 24 and 25, over 10,000 spectators gathered at Hofstra Arena, Hofstra University in Hempstead to watch 39 teams of high school students compete at the Long Island Regional competition to earn a spot at the FIRST USA Championship to be held April 27-29 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta GA. Several teams received honors and recognition that rewarded design excellence, competitive play, sportsmanship and high-impact partnerships between schools, businesses and communities...

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The School-Business Partnerships of Long Island (SBPLI), sponsor of the Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition announced that high school students from 38 high schools, including 29 local school districts, have been tasked with the challenge and excitement of designing and building an original robot culminating in the Long Island FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Regional Competition. The competition will be held on March 24th and...

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A spirit of cooperation and teamwork permeated the gymnasium at Deer Park High School on Saturday, September 24, 2005 as robots took center court during the Deer Park Invitational, a preseason robotics competition sponsored by the School Business Partnerships of Long Island. Friendly competition coaxed problem solving skills and stellar sportsmanship from the twelve high school teams, including one team from Brooklyn, creating an engaging learning environment focused on the...

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On March 18 and 19, over 10,000 spectators gathered at Hofstra Arena, Hofstra University in Hempstead to watch 40 teams of high school students compete at the Long Island Regional competition to earn a spot at the FIRST USA Championship to be held April 21-23 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta GA. Several teams received honors and recognition that rewarded design excellence, competitive play, sportsmanship and high-impact partnerships between schools, businesses and communities...

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The School - Business Partnerships of Long Island (SBPLI), sponsor of the Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition is proud to announce that four Long Island high school students from the 2004 LI-FIRST Robotics competition have been awarded scholarships from accredited institutions in the field of technology.

The four students, Andrew Anderson of Port Jefferson, Kristopher Lee of West Islip, Frederick Liguori of Longwood and Gregory Lilly of...

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