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Follow on Google News | Winners Announced at Junior FIRST LEGO League ExpoEighteen teams compete in Jr. FLL's "Super Seniors(SM)" Challenge.
By: School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. 
Members of Team #1065 “LEGO Lords and Lady” of Seaford In the SUPER SENIORS Challenge, children ages 6 to 9 learned about the challenges some senior citizens may have getting around, keeping in touch with friends and family or staying active and fit, and the changes they have experienced in their lifetime. They researched one change the senior experienced and found out what experts are doing to make life better or easier for seniors, and learned about simple machines as they built a model made of LEGO elements with a moving part and created a team Show-Me Poster to represent their findings. The following teams received these awards (please note that some of the categories had multiple winners but there was no definite order): Awards/Team #/Location/Team Name Against All Odds/345/Central Islip/Girl Scouts of Suffolk County Z-Bots Against All Odds/1065/Seaford/ Against All Odds/2425/Commack/ Teamwork/143/ Teamwork/897/ Teamwork/1312/ Show Me Poster/344/Nesconset/ Show Me Poster/1358/ Show Me Poster/2171/ Team Spirit/503/Garden City/GC Team Fun Team Spirit/2172/ Reviewers’ Award/365/Seaford/ Reviewers’ Award/861/Blue Point/LEGOnators Reviewers’ Award/2779/Long Beach/LEGO Girls Model Design Award/57/Huntington Station/LEGO Maniacs Model Design Award/86/Hicksville/ Model Design Award/1002/Centerport/ Gracious Professionalism/ 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. Rick Ramhap, Jr. FLL Coordinator, said: “We are pleased to coordinate the Long Island Jr. FIRST LEGO League Expo. It is an extension of the FIRST Robotics Competition and the FIRST LEGO League Championship Tournament. Together 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.” For more information about SBPLI, visit www.sbpli.org. Photo Caption: Members of Team #1065 “LEGO Lords and Lady” of Seaford present their robot and Show-Me Poster, which won the Against All Odds Award, at the Junior FIRST LEGO League Expo at Longwood High School on March 3. ### * 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 (http://www.sbpli- ABOUT FIRST(TM) Accomplished inventor Dean Kamen founded FIRST(TM) (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) in 1989 to inspire an appreciation of science and technology in young people. Based in Manchester, N.H., FIRST designs accessible, innovative programs to build self-confidence, knowledge, and life skills while motivating young people to pursue opportunities in science, technology, and engineering. With the support of many of the world’s most well-known companies, the not-for-profit organization hosts the FIRST Robotics Competition and FIRST Tech Challenge for high-school students, FIRST LEGO® League for children 9-14 years old, and Junior FIRST LEGO League for 6 to 9 year-olds. To learn more about FIRST, go to www.usfirst.org. ABOUT THE LEGO GROUP LEGO Systems Inc. (LSI) is the Americas (North America and Latin America) division of The LEGO Group, a privately-held firm based in Billund, Denmark. The LEGO Group is committed to the development of children's creative and imaginative abilities through high-quality, creatively educational play materials, and its employees are guided by the motto adopted in the 1930s by founder Ole Kirk Christiansen: End
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