Hewlett High’s Roboboogie wins world championship trophy

Team 3540 Roboboogie, one of the Hewlett High School robotics teams, captured the Out of the Box Award at the FIRST (For Inspirationand Recognition in Science and Technology) Tech World Championship in Houston from April 19 to 22.

The other two teams are Bionica and Innovo.

The judge’s award is given to a team that embodies FIRST Tech’s core values that includes discovery, fun, impact, inclusion, innovation and teamwork. When not competing or improving their robot, Roboboogie members are with Hewlett High special education students and have built and programmed a competitive level LEGO EV3 robot during many free periods and lunch periods.

“We are not using kids to build robots, we are using robots to build kids,” FIRST TECH founder Dean Kamen, has said.