Sachem Aftershock, FIRST Robotics Competition Team 263, proudly represented Sachem High Schools East and North at the 2015 World Championships held in St. Louis April 22-25, 2015. Aftershock was one of 76 teams that competed in the Hopper Division, making it to the Quarter Finals after being ranked 14th in the Qualifying Matches.
Team 263 also was a Regional Finalist at the SBPLI Long Island Regional held at Hofstra University March 26-28, 2015. Aftershock dominated throughout that competition, achieving the highest round scores of the event, and was selected to compete with the First Place team for the Final Rounds.
Those competitions wrapped up an already exciting season for Team 263. They previously had won First Place (for highest score) and First Place Alliance awards at the Suffield Shakedown in February. That same month they were also Regional Winners at the South Florida Regional, where they were awarded the “Innovation in Control Systems” Award. At the New York Tech Valley Regional in March, they received the “Excellence in Engineering” Award after making it to the Quarter Finals.
Sachem Aftershock’s success this season is a result of the tremendous amount of hard work and dedication put in by its dramatically increased membership and their phenomenal mentors. Team 263 continually proves, as FIRST says, it
is about “more than robots” and is “the hardest fun you’ll ever have.”