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Welcome to REEFSCAPE

Beneath the ocean’s surface lies our planet’s most complex ecosystems, full of life and potential for exploration and learning, where each inhabitant has a role to play in building a thriving environment.

During the 2024-2025 FIRST season, teams will use their STEM and collaboration skills to explore life beneath the surface of the ocean. Along the way, we’ll uncover the potential in each of us to strengthen our community and innovate for a better world with healthy oceans. 

Metal. To The Core

Launched in 2017, LongMetal Robotics from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, focuses on building a community of students to collaborate, lead, and develop critical problem-solving skills.

Team photos by Carrington Creative

More Than Just Robots

LongMetal Robotics participates in the FIRST Robotics Competition, arranged by global non-profit FIRST (For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). FIRST empowers young people worldwide to compete in a STEM-based environment, and creates the “only sport where everyone can go pro.”

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  • "My time spent on LongMetal Robotics created the person I am today. From how I go about solving problems to how I interact with my peers on a daily basis."

    Sam Barresi
    Founding Member LongMetal
    Mechanical Engineering Major, Merrimack College

  • "Our robotics team pushes me out of my comfort zone, which helps me learn new things and overcome challenges I haven’t faced before."

    Audrey Lam
    LongMetal Alumni 2024
    Columbia University

  • "LongMetal Robotics allows me the opportunity to work with students, helping them to learn new skills and apply them in a challenging and uniquely competitive environment which stresses the FIRST ideals of coopertition and gracious professionalism."

    Paul Dunkerley
    Founding Mentor, Team LongMetal

  • “It’s a true learning place to fail, fix, and be free to create. I love the mentors who make that possible and the peers who make it fun.”

    Reese Haag
    LongMetal Alumni 2024
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

  • LongMetal introduced me to a family of liked-minded students and passionate mentors - from both LHS and the wider FIRST community. Like many others, I came for the robots, but I stayed for the people. They are what made the experience so rewarding for me.

    Alex Lam
    LongMetal Alumni 2022
    Engineering Major, Yale University