The Sewanhaka Central High School District Senior Robotics Club competed and received several awards at a FIRST Tech Challenge Regional Qualifying Tournament organized by the School-Business Partnerships of Long Island, Inc. (SBPLI), which was held remotely from March 15-22.
Sewanhaka was recognized with the first place Inspire Award, second-place Think Award, second place Collins Aerospace Innovate Award, second-place Control Award sponsored by Arm, Inc., third place Connect Award and third-place Motivate Award.
FIRST Tech Challenge students learn to think like engineers, and teams design, build and code robots to compete in a new game each year. This year’s game, ULTIMATE GOAL℠ presented by Qualcomm®, required students to build a robot to pick up foam rings from the floor and launch them into one of three different goals positioned on one side of a 12-foot by 8-foot field.
The club members include: Izhaan Ahmed, New Hyde Park Memorial High School; Furqan Ahsan, Floral Park Memorial High School; Sean Andrade, Sewanhaka High School; Ishita Bansal, New Hyde Park Memorial; Omar Gebara, Floral Park Memorial; Caroline Gilman, H. Frank Carey High School; Aakarsh Gupta, New Hyde Park Memorial; Vivek Mirchandani, Floral Park Memorial; Josue Ortiz-Ordonez, Floral Park Memorial; Joseph Pili, H. Frank Carey; Christopher Rasquin, Floral Park Memorial; David Ren, New Hyde Park Memorial; Elizabeth Sepulveda, Floral Park Memorial; Jada Seto, New Hyde Park Memorial; Helee Shukla, New Hyde Park; Sukhsimran Singh, Floral Park Memorial; Stanley So, Floral Park Memorial; Taseen Tanzil New Hyde Park; Brianna Venkatasami, Sewanhaka; and Nicholas Washington, Floral Park Memorial.
