Gershow Recycling supports high school robotics teams with aluminium scrap

For the sixth year in a row, Gershow Recycling opened its Medford, New York, scrap metal processing facility to local high school robotics teams participating in the School-Business Partnerships of Long Island’s (SBPLI) upcoming Long Island Regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition.

A total of 15 high school robotics teams took advantage of the program and visited Gershow Recycling for free scrap metal.

Some of the highlights of the program are the following:
• Members of the Townsend Harris High School’s robotics team will use 162 pounds of aluminum scrap and their kit of parts to help them build a robot.
• Members of the Longwood High School robotics team will use 26 pounds of aluminum scrap and their kit of parts to help them build a robot.
• Members of the Smithtown High School robotics team will use 26 pounds of aluminum scrap and their kit of parts to help them build a robot.
• Members of the Half Hollow Hills robotics team will use 57 pounds of aluminum scrap and their kit of parts to help them build a robot.
The competing schools will have six weeks to construct the robot and prepare for the upcoming competition, according to Gershow Recycling.

This year, Gershow donated a total of 1,435 pounds of aluminum scrap.

The 2015 robotics 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, the company says.

Gershow has nine locations in Brooklyn, New Hyde Park, Valley Stream, Freeport, Lindenhurst, Huntington Station, Bay Shore, Medford and Riverhead, New York.