For the sixth year in a row, Gershow Recycling opened its Medford facility to local high school robotics teams participating in School-Business Partnerships of Long Island’s (SBPLI) upcoming Long Island Regional FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition to receive free aluminum scrap.
Townsend Harris High School located in Flushing, Queens was one of 15 high school robotics teams that participated in the program.
Members of the Townsend Harris High School’s robotics team will use 162 lbs. of aluminum scrap and their kit of parts to help them build a robot. They will have six weeks to construct the robot and prepare for the upcoming competition. The Townsend Harris High School robotics team thanked Gershow for its support. This year, Gershow donated 1,435 lbs. of aluminum scrap.
In keeping with the theme of recycling, this year’s FRC challenge will be RECYCLE RUSH℠, in which robots score points by stacking totes on scoring platforms, capping those stacks with recycling containers and properly disposing of pool noodles, representing litter.
Published in the March 2015 Edition of American Recycler News
