Northport HS Robotics Team Wins 2nd At Long Island Regional

NORTHPORT, NY — Northport High School’s FIRST Robotics Team 5099 won second place at the Long Island Regional #2 at Hofstra University held Thursday through Saturday, the school district announced. The students were partnered with teammates from Kings Park and Patchogue-Medford.

Northport Robotics persevered through many challenges they encountered with their robot over weeks of design and construction, according to the district.

The capstone event represents hundreds of hours of collaboration, engineering, and computer science talent from students, parents, community mentors, sponsors and faculty advisors.

FIRST stands "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology" and is often referred to as the "ultimate sport for the mind." Students are challenged in the STEM program to use their technical talents and collaborative skills to build and program a life-size robot to perform issued tasks against a field of competitors.

"FIRST Robotics offers an experience as close to real-world business development and
engineering management as a student can get," said David Storch, district chairperson of science, technology and engineering education. "It instills critical skills such as problem solving, time management, conflict resolution, and communication. Team 5099 met and conquered the challenge in innovative ways and we are honored to recognize their talent and accomplishment."

The district congratulated team members Caleb Belanger, William Chambers, Nick Churaman, Veronica Flick, Robert Germani, Brendan Gorman, Tyler Hradek, Ryan Kattau, Peter Kucza, Eduardo Lopez, Carter Mooers, Erik Oderwald, Todd Petry, Cole Rumpel, Hunter Rumpel,
Adam Sweeney, and Luke Tuthill with advisors Bill Claps and Greg Robinson.