Locust Valley High School hosted some of the best young, technical minds from Long Island on Jan. 29 during the FIRST Energize Power Play robotics competition.
The Locust Valley Middle School team “FalconBots” and high school “Team Kuiper” competed with dozens of the other teams from the area during the intense competition. As a result of their performance, the high school team qualified for the Long Island Regional Championship, which will be held on March 12 at Bethpage High School. In addition to the two Locust Valley teams, a robotics team from Locust Valley Intermediate and the sixth-grade team from the middle school, came to cheer on the home teams and get a taste for the excitement of the FIRST competition.
FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is a robotics community that prepares young people for the future through a suite of team-based robotics programs for ages 4 to 18.