FIRST® Long Island Announces Award Winners from the 2025 FIRST Robotics Competition Long Island Regional

March 26, 2025

Team #564 “Longwood RoboLions” from Longwood High School in Middle Island was the recipient of the FIRST®  (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Impact Award at the FIRST Robotics Competition Long Island Regional, which took place at Hofstra University’s David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex in Hempstead on March 21-22.

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Long Island presented its 2025 Long Island Regional on March 21-22 at Hofstra University’s David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex in Hempstead. Forty-nine teams from Long Island, New York City, and India took part in the four-day FIRST® Robotics Competition. This event culminated with awards and honors for areas such as design excellence, competitive play, sportsmanship and high-impact partnerships among schools, businesses and communities.

 

The winner of the 2025 Long Island Regional was the three-team alliance made up of “Kingsmen Robotics” (Team #3736) from Kings Park High School, “POBots” (Team #353) from Plainview-Old Bethpage/JFK High School and “Longwood RoboLions” (Team #564) from Longwood High School. “Longwood RoboLions” (Team #564) from Longwood High School in Middle Island took home the coveted FIRST Impact Award, which is the event’s most prestigious award. It recognizes the team that best embodies the goals and purpose of FIRST and that best represents a model for other teams to emulate. “Mineola Wild Reds” (Team #6806) from Mineola High School won the Regional Engineering Inspiration Award. These teams are now eligible to compete at the 2025 FIRST Championship presented by BAE Systems at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, from April 16-19.

 

Ashwin Shah, Team Mentor, Team #9692 “Sigma Powered By Adipro” from Mumbai, India, was named a Finalist for the Woodie Flowers Award. Winners of the Dean’s List Finalist Award were Matthew L of Team #810 “The Mechanical Bulls” from Smithtown High School and Igor D of Team #6806 “Mineola Wild Reds” from Mineola High School.

 

“This was one of the best Long Island Regionals we’ve experienced,” says Bertram Dittmar, Executive Director, FIRST Long Island. “All participating teams demonstrated tremendous teamwork, gracious professionalism™ and critical thinking. The fun and excitement of the competition was evident as many students and mentors got caught up in the spirit of the event. Participants, volunteers, and sponsors had the opportunity to experience the beauty of engineering and technology combined with the excitement of a competitive event.”

 

As a FIRST® Robotics Competition, the Long Island Regional featured teams of high school-aged students from across Long Island, the New York metropolitan area and even around the world competing in a cooperative tournament-style robotics competition. Guided by their mentors, students rely on their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to compete for honors and recognition that reward design excellence, competitive play and sportsmanship. This high-energy event further emphasizes the importance of high-impact partnerships between students, universities, businesses, and communities.

 

This year’s competition was dubbed  REEFSCAPESM presented by Haas, in which  two competing alliances are invited to score coral, harvest algae, and attach to the barge before time runs out. Alliances earn additional rewards for meeting specific scoring thresholds and for cooperating with their opponents. Human players provide the game pieces to the robots from the substations. In the last moments of each match, alliance robots race to dock or engage with their charge station.
 

 

The Full List of Winners of the 2025 SBPLI Long Island Regional Awards Include:

 

AWARD
TEAM #
TEAM NAME
SCHOOL/TOWN
Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen
6024
R Factor
Neighborhood Group/Mumbai, India
Innovation in Control Award sponsored by nVent
2872
CyberCats
Wheatley School/ Old Westbury
Creativity Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation
8267
Riptide Robotics 8267
Long Beach High School/Long Beach
Excellence in Engineering Award
9692
Sigma Powered By Adipro
Family/Community/Mumbai, India
Autonomous Award
5736
Kingsmen Robotics
Kings Park High School/Kings Park
Quality Award
287
Floyd Robotics
William Floyd High School/Mastic Beach
Gracious Professionalism Award
2869
Regal Eagles
Bethpage High School/
Bethpage
Team Spirit Award
3624
Soaring Colts
Half Hollow Hills High School East & West/Huntington Station
Team Sustainability Award sponsored by Dow
353
POBots
Plainview-Old Bethpage & JFK High School/Plainview
Rising All-Star Award
28
Pierson Whalers
Pierson Middle High School/Sag Harbor
Rookie All Star Award ***
10621
Crusaders
Long Island Lutheran Middle & High School/Glen Head
Industrial Design Award sponsored by General Motors
870
TEAM R.I.C.E.
Southold Jr. Sr. High School/Southold
Judges’ Award
9016
Syosset SuperSonics
Syosset High School/Syosset
Regional Finalist #1
870
TEAM R.I.C.E.
Southold Jr. Sr. High School/Southold
Regional Finalist #2
1468
Hicksville J-Birds
Hicksville High School/
Hicksville
Regional Finalist #3
263
Aftershock
Sachem High Schools North & East/Ronkonkoma
Regional Winner #1**
5736
Kingsmen Robotics
Kings Park High School/Kings Park
Regional Winner #2**
353
POBots
Plainview-Old Bethpage & JFK High School/Plainview
Regional Winner #3**
564
Longwood RoboLions
Longwood High School/Middle Island
Regional Engineering Inspiration Award**
6806
Mineola Wild Reds
Mineola High School/Mineola
Regional FIRST Impact
Award* **
564
Longwood RoboLions
Longwood High School/Middle Island

 

* The FIRST Impact Award is the most prestigious award of the event and recognizes the team that embodies the goals and purpose of FIRST and best represents a model for other teams to emulate.
** These teams are eligible to participate in the 2025 FIRST® Championship presented by BAE Systems at either the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas on April 16-19.
*** Denotes a rookie team.

 

Please Note: Photos of all Award Winners and Advancing Teams are available upon request.