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Follow on Google News | Long Island Teams Receive Numerous Awards at FIRST LEGO League Championship TournamentApproximately 400 Elementary and Middle School Students Take the “SENIOR SOLUTIONS(SM) Challenge”
By: School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. In the Senior Solutions Challenge, teams partnered with senior citizens, held conversations with them about their struggles, and created solutions as to how these setbacks can be improved. Upon completion, teams shared their solutions to their senior teammates’ problems. The following teams received these awards: Awards/Team #/Location/Team Name Champion’s 1st Place/10147/ Champion’s 2nd Place/3643/Bayport/ Mechanical Design/5188/ Programming/ Research/8493/ Innovative Solution/9528/ Presentation/ Robot Performance 1st Place/7894/Commack/ Robot Performance 2nd Place/3681/Smithtown/ Teamwork/3578/ Gracious Professionalism/ Strategy & Innovation/3815/ Inspiration/ Judge’s Award/641/Locust Valley/Robotic Falcons Judge’s Award/12493/ Alliance Award/7894/Commack/ Alliance Award/5003/Plainview/ The Champion’s Award recognizes a team that embodies the FLL experience by fully embracing the core values of FIRST while achieving excellence and innovation in both the robot game and the project. Both award winners will be invited to participate in a higher level of competition — one will be invited to the World Festival on April 24-27 at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri and the other will be asked to participate in the FLL US Open on May 17-19 in LEGOland in Carlsbad, California. (Both are invitation-only.) Additional sponsors included Central Islip Public Schools; Brookhaven National Laboratory; FIRST; Sideboard Computers; Farmingdale State College; The Law Office of Jeffrey Stern; Lisa Cohen; Andrew Margolin; the Plainview-Old Bethpage School District; Sir Speedy of Plainview; and Robert Woods of LEGO Education. Founded by inventor Dean Kamen, FIRST was created to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology. First LEGO League is an international program for 9- to 14-year-old children created in a partnership between FIRST and The LEGO Group in 1998 based on their common belief that fun and learning go hand-in-hand, and that an inspired mind can accomplish anything. Each September, FIRST LEGO League announces the annual Challenge to teams, engaging them in authentic scientific research and hands-on robotics design. Using LEGO MINDSTORMS® technologies and LEGO play materials, children work alongside adult mentors to design, build, and program robots to complete missions based on real-world challenges. After eight intense weeks, the competition season culminates at high-energy, sports-like tournaments. Janet Anderson, Development Council Member, SBPLI, said: “We are pleased to coordinate the Long Island FIRST LEGO League Tournament. Together with the FIRST Robotics Competition at the high school level, these programs are opening a world of technology, science, and engineering to so many Long Island students, helping to build our high tech workforce of the future.” Photo Caption: Members of Team #3821 — “Robot Cookie Monsters” of the Girl Scouts of Nassau County in Merrick excitedly react to their robot’s performance during the FIRST LEGO League Championship Tournament at Longwood High School. ### * Photo is attached and available upon request. ** Individual photos of the winning teams are also available upon request. School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. (SBPLI) was founded in 1984 by Fred Breithut with the goal of developing partnerships between local high schools and businesses that would provide students with practical experience and curriculum development, while helping the business community develop its future workforce. Over 100 partnerships have been formed. In 1999, SBPLI brought the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition to Long Island, in which eight high school teams participated. Since then, the Long Island Regional FIRST Robotics Competition has grown to 50 teams competing each year. SBPLI also hosts Long Island’s annual FIRST LEGO League Qualifying and Championship Tournaments and the Junior FIRST LEGO League Expo, in which approximately 1,000 elementary and middle school students from Nassau and Suffolk Counties take part each year. End
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