What is FIRST Robotics?
Located in Middle Island, NY, Team 564 is composed of students from Longwood Senior High School in grades 9 – 12 in the Longwood Central School District. Originating in 2001, our team’s purpose is to establish a school-based program to overall enhance our members’ knowledge of scientific, mathematical, and technical areas through practical application. Equally important, this program promotes teamwork and further improves cooperative learning situations; to bring together the community and school in a pedagogical atmosphere.
FIRST
FIRST stands for “For inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology”. This program was set up to help students appreciate science and technology and allow them to explore careers that are available to them. FIRST sponsors many regional competitions through out the world. All of the regional competitions will then conclude with one national competition held in April of each year.
Sub Teams
Mechanics
Responsible for design and build of chassis, manipulator and other design process. They must prototype, design and build the physical robot for the challenge presented. Their design must meet the challenge presented and follow a strict set of rules presented by FIRST.
Electronics
Responsible for wiring the team and setting up, testing and fixing the electronics systems on the robot. They will communicate with the mechanics and the programming teams to express needs and meet the electronic demands of each years design.
Business
Responsible for the financial and philanthropic activities of the team. Has the goal of supporting the team financially as well as helping to promote STEM throughout the district. This team is responsible for submission of Awards and Social Media communication by the team.
Programming
Responsible for Coding the Robot each year. Our programming team works with the Java programming language and WPLI Libraries to program our robot. Additionally we are responsible for programming Python for offboard vision calculations and program scouting applications and website design.
CAD
Our Computer Aided Design team, uses OnShape to draw our robot in 3D modeling. This allows for us to measure, and test prior to fabrication. We can also utilize this technology when needing laser cutting, CNC and water jet services.
