001Um, I reconvene the regular meeting at about 6:45 p.m. The board is returning from an executive session where the employment history of a particular person and collective negotiations with the Southampton Teacher Association and the USPU operations unit pursuant to article 14 of the civil law were discussed. If everyone would please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please remain standing for a moment of silent reflection. Thank you. May have your attention for a brief announcement. Upon fire alarm activation, immediate evacuation to the closest emergency exit is required. The emergency exits are located behind you and to the side. Please exit away from the building so
002as not to interfere with the fire department and proceed to the evacuation areas. Please follow the school officials directions. Once assembled outside the building, everyone must wait until a school official gives an all clear before re-entering the building. Will the clerk please call the role? Cara Thompson here. Robert Zachary here. Monique here. Jackson Robinson here. Si Sherwood here. Jermaine El Smith present. White here. Thank you. The next board of education meeting will be a regular meeting held on Tuesday, April 1st, immediately following a public hearing for a repair reserve fund at 6:30 p.m. It is anticipated that the board of education will adopt the 2025 2026 budget at the April 1 regular meeting. Just wanted to mention that the girls varsity volleyball played in their first ever county championship games on Wednesday, November 6th against
003Santa Mariches uh for the section 11 class B championship. What a successful year we've had with our sports um with basketball. It made me reflect back on what else happened this year. We also had the varsity field hockey, played Pearson at the section 11 class C championships um November 5th. This was the team's first county championship game in 10 years. Um, wrestler Hudson Fox qualified for the New York State tournament this winter. Girls varsity track were league champions in the 4x200 relay with Emma, Zoe Sul, Reese Guosha, and Katie Terry. Christian Duall was league champion for the boy varsity boys track in the 1600 meters. The boys cross country team members are the Suffach County Class C champions. Um Jake Cook, Matthew Cook, Christian Dal, Will Depri, Liam Levvino, Gel Roas qualified for states. Lily
004Telvy was a state qualifier for the girls cross country team. Uh boys baseball bested Consul Miller place in round one and Babylon in round two. Golf, I'm sorry. I have baseball on the brain. Sorry. Uh Mr. Um round two of the section nine section section 11 county tournament in October. Unfortunately, they were eliminated by West Hampton Beach in round three. So, congratulations to all of our athletes this year. It really has been a fun, great year. Um I will turn our next exciting um team to come forward tonight. Dr. Morel, I will turn to you to introduce them. Abs. Absolutely. Thank you, Madam President. Good evening, Southampton community. Um it is with such great pride and honor that I welcome our first robotics team from the high school. um under the leadership of Dr. Mitchell,
005Mr. Ruizi, and Mr. Flu. Um I had an amazing opportunity to go to the international uh robotics first competition this past weekend where our I was able to see our scholars in action with their robot and all the teamwork. Um we had parents there who were helping. It was just such an amazing family feel, but to really see our scholars really getting in there with robotics and all the work that they put into it and they were cooking. They had they were there the marinators and they had their chef's hat on and they did cook. They absolutely did. And we are so extremely proud um of Sarah Burrows and her ingenuity um also on the robotics team um to create a prosthetic leg for a dog Trila that's disabled for this animal shel uh at
006the animal shelter and Trila has since been adopted by a family. So it's just great work that has occurring. We have great work with our sport teams. We have great work with our robotics teams and we have many many other clubs under the leadership of Dr. Z on there at the high school that are just doing amazing work. So without further ado, I would like to welcome Dr. Mitchell and um her team to be able to do a little bit of a presentation for us uh of the first robotics club at Southampton High School. Hello. Hi. I hope I hope everyone's having a good evening. My name is Madden. My name is Sarah. And we're members of the first robotics team here at Southampton. Just to reiterate what was said before, last year we had
007the honor of founding Southampton's first ever first robotics team and we chose to name it the Marinators. And this year, just last weekend, we had the honor of competing at our second time at Hofra in the game called Briefcape. If you could please divert your attention to the projector, we have a short video explaining the rules in the game that we competed in. Welcome to the 2025 first robotics competition game, Reefcape, presented by HOS. Two alliances of three teams each compete to earn points by harvesting algae, seeding coral on their reef, and returning to their barge to ascend to the ocean surface. Alliances earn additional rewards for meeting specific scoring thresholds and for cooperating with their opponents prior to the start of the match. Teams can choose to hang a shallow cage or a deep
008cage on their barge. Robots start each match at their starting line and may be preloaded with one coral. During the first 15 seconds of the match, robots are autonomous and can be programmed to leave the starting line, remove algae from their reef, and place coral on their reef. If all enabled robots on an alliance leave the starting line and score at least one coral in auto, the alliance earns the auto ranking point. During the following 2 minutes and 15 seconds of the match, drivers control their robot. Robots can place algae in their net and collect coral from human players at their coral station to place on their reef. Coral placed higher on the reef are worth more points. If an alliance can score enough coral on all four levels, they will earn an additional ranking
009point. Robots can also deliver algae to their processor. Once processed, the algae can be taken by the opposing human player and scored into the net. When two algae are delivered to each processor, both alliances earn a co-op point. The co-op point reduces the number of coral needed on the reef to earn the ranking point and influences a team's rank in the tournament. As time runs out, robots race back to their barge to hang on their cage and ascend to the ocean surface. Points are awarded to robots that can hang on a shallow cage, and even more points are awarded to robots that can hang on a deep cage. An alliance that scores enough barge points will earn the barge ranking point. The alliance that earns the most points overall wins the match. So, this is
010the robot that we brought to our competition. Um we are a second year team so we are not as experienced as some 30 20 year old teams. Um but we did manage to get very advanced techniques in a robot this year. Um and it's one of the reasons we want to start the initiative of expanding our reach to the elementary school by um expanding and adding a first Lego League because we believe that um starting with engineering skills at a young age will one bring attention to what robotics is and hopefully um grow interest but also we'll be able to use more advanced skills. Even as mentors experience takes years to build um but I'm really happy for how much we did. So we have um an algae and a coral intake.