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Nassau: Robotics ideas to aid elderly

Rocky Point middle schoolers Justin Monaghan and Kyle

Photo credit: Handout | Rocky Point middle schoolers Justin Monaghan and Kyle Markland in action at the recent FIRST LEGO League Long Island Championship Tournament in Middle Island; their team won first place.

Teams from Rocky Point and Bayport were named Long Island's best earlier this month in a competition using LEGOs to solve challenges that senior citizens face on a daily basis.

Radical Robotix of Rocky Point Middle School and the Lion Bots of Academy Street Elementary School in Bayport won the champion's first- and second-place awards, respectively, at the FIRST LEGO League Long Island Championship...

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