Our Robots

1998

• Founded at Bay Shore High School as the Bell Atlantic Robotics Team (B.A.R.T.)
• An organizing year: students watched a FIRST competition to get ready to compete

1999

• Our rookie year in the FIRST Robotics Competition; the team registered but was unable to compete

2000

• Our first year of competition
• Long Island Regional
• FIRST Championship
• Became the Mechanical Marauders

2001

• Long Island Regional: Semifinalist, Imagery Award
• FIRST Championship

2002

• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Semifinalist
• UTC New England Regional: Semifinalist
• FIRST Championship, Newton Division: division finalist

• Brunswick Eruption: Winner
• Mayhem on the Merrimack: Winner

2003

• Chesapeake Regional: Quarterfinalist
• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Quarterfinalist, Industrial Design Award
• FIRST Championship, Newton Division: quarterfinalist

2004

• Palmetto Regional: Finalist

• Brunswick Eruption: Winner
• BattleCry@WPI: Quarterfinalist

2005

• UTC New England Regional: Quarterfinalist
• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Finalist
• FIRST Championship, Newton Division
• The first of six FIRST Championship appearances in a row

• Deer Park Invitational
• Brunswick Eruption

2006

• Finger Lakes Regional: Quarterfinalist
• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Winner (with Teams 358 and 870; our first event win)
• FIRST Championship, Archimedes Division: semifinalist

• Brunswick Eruption: Winner (alliance captain)
• BattleCry@WPI: alliance captain; the Purple Heart, a judges’ award
• Monty Madness: Finalist
• Deer Park Invitational: Finalist

2007

• New York City Regional: Semifinalist
• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Quarterfinalist (ranked 4th), Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award (now Excellence in Engineering)
• FIRST Championship, Newton Division

• BattleCry@WPI: Winner
• Brunswick Eruption: Best Autonomous Mode award
• Monty Madness
• Deer Park Invitational: Finalist

2008

• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Quarterfinalist, Industrial Design Award
• New York City Regional: Semifinalist, Innovation in Control Award
• FIRST Championship, Curie Division
• Named after Molly, our shop dog (Peter Burke's dog)

• Monty Madness: Winner
• Deer Park Invitational: Winner
• BattleCry@WPI: Semifinalist
• Brunswick Eruption: #1 Seed award
• Ramp Riot: Semifinalist (4th alliance)

2009

• New York City Regional: Quarterfinalist (ranked 6th), Xerox Creativity Award
• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Semifinalist (ranked 6th), Innovation in Control Award
• FIRST Championship, Curie Division

• BattleCry@WPI: alliance captain
• Ramp Riot

2010

• New York City Regional: Finalist (ranked 9th)
• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Winner (with Teams 358 and 263; alliance captain; ranked 2nd), Excellence in Engineering Award, Coopertition Award
• FIRST Championship, Galileo Division: quarterfinalist

• Deer Park Invitational: Winner
• Ramp Riot: Winner

2011

• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Finalist (alliance captain; ranked 7th), Innovation in Control Award
• A crab drive we designed and built ourselves
• Featured in Popular Mechanics for our manipulator, modeled after the human finger
• Our minibot went on to the FIRST Championship with Team 375

• Ramp Riot: #1 Seed award
• Deer Park Invitational: Finalist

Summer 2011

• The team moved its shop back into Bay Shore High School

2012

• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Quarterfinalist (ranked 8th)
• FIRST Championship, Newton Division

• Duel on the Delaware: Winner (alliance captain)
• Brunswick Eruption

2013

• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Quarterfinalist
• Named for our late mentor Sullivan "Sully" Chen

• Half Hollow Hills Invitational: Finalist
• Brunswick Eruption: Semifinalist

2014

• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Finalist, Quality Award
• New York City Regional: Finalist, Quality Award
• The 47th team in FIRST history to win all five robot-design awards, the Engineering Awards Quinfecta

• Half Hollow Hills Invitational: Finalist
• Brunswick Eruption: Quarterfinalist
• Duel on the Delaware book drive: shared runner-up award

2015

• New York City Regional: Finalist
• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Semifinalist (alliance captain; ranked 10th), Quality Award
• FIRST Championship, Curie Division

• MidKnight Mayhem: Quarterfinalist
• Brunswick Eruption: Semifinalist (alliance captain)
• Duel on the Delaware book drive: second-place award

2016

• Finger Lakes Regional: Excellence in Engineering Award
• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Quarterfinalist

• Brunswick Eruption: Winner
• Duel on the Delaware: Quarterfinalist; book drive winner, the Miracle of Reading Education Community Service Award

2017

• Finger Lakes Regional: Finalist
• SBPLI Long Island Regional: Quarterfinalist, Creativity Award
• FIRST Championship, Tesla Division

• Duel on the Delaware: Winner
• Brunswick Eruption: Quarterfinalist

2018

• SBPLI Long Island Regional #1: Quarterfinalist, Quality Award
• SBPLI Long Island Regional #2: Quarterfinalist (alliance captain; ranked 9th)

• Regal Eagle Rampage
• Brunswick Eruption: Quarterfinalist (alliance captain; ranked 2nd)

2019

• Finger Lakes Regional: Winner (with Teams 870 and 3015)
• SBPLI Long Island Regional #2: Quarterfinalist
• SBPLI Long Island Regional #1: Semifinalist (ranked 9th)
• FIRST Championship, Archimedes Division: semifinalist

• Duel on the Delaware: Winner

2020

• Our 2020 events were cancelled

2021

• The team did not compete in 2021

2022

• SBPLI Long Island Regional #2: Finalist

2023

• Finger Lakes Regional: Playoffs (second pick of Alliance 4)
• FIRST Long Island Regional #2: Playoffs (second pick of Alliance 7)
• Named for Peter Mathews, our late student, alumnus and mentor

2024

• FIRST Long Island Regional: Playoffs (first pick of Alliance 8)
• Named for Peter Mathews, our late student, alumnus and mentor

• Half Hollow Hills Invitational: Playoffs (second pick of Alliance 4)

2025

• FIRST Long Island Regional: Playoffs (second pick of Alliance 5)
• Our first swerve drive since 2011

• NYC Robo Replay: our second robot won; our main robot reached the playoffs as first pick of Alliance 3
• Kenneth R. Vessey (Half Hollow Hills) Invitational: our second robot won
• Brunswick Eruption: Playoffs (second pick of Alliance 3)

2026

• Finger Lakes Regional: Most Improved Team Award from Team 1507 Warlocks and Best Digsite Award from Team 3173 IgKnighters
• New York Tech Valley Regional: Playoffs (second pick of Alliance 6)
• A hopper-fed ball launcher on swerve

• NYC Robo Replay: Most Improved Team Award; alliance captain
• BattleCry@WPI (May): Finalist
• BattleCry@WPI (June): alliance captain, after declining an invitation from the 8th seed to lead our own alliance
• Duel on the Delaware: Playoffs (first pick of Alliance 8)
• Brunswick Eruption: Playoffs (first pick of Alliance 3)