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Friday, February 6, 2026
Vol. 3, No. 6
THE GATEWAY TO NASSAU COUNTY SERVING FLORAL PARK, BELLEROSE AND STEWART MANOR
Tech entrepreneur leads youth robotics effort
The FIRST Robotics Sikh Youth team, Team 32048 Robo Warriors, participated in competitions across Long Island including on January 18th at Sewanhaka. zone, share details about the business technology manageOn Sunday, January 18th, ment services he offers, and 23-year-old Sukhsimran learn from interactions with Singh—better known as “Sukh” experienced local professionals in his hometown of Floral Park and managers. and across Long Island—was In late 2025, Singh and Sukh back in the Sewanhaka CenTech Solutions had the opportral School District, attending a tunity to sponsor and mentor FIRST Robotics competition he FIRST Tech Challenge Team once competed in during 2020 32048, Robo Warriors—a group and 2021. Less than five years of local Sikh American students later, Sukh is now teaching and in grades seven through twelve. guiding a group of aspiring stuMost team members attend dents from Floral Park, Belleschools within the Sewanharose, and surrounding commuka district, while others come from Herricks and nearby comThe Floral Park Villager Published every Friday by Litmor Publishing Corp. StuTelephone 516-931-0012 Postmaster: Send Address Change to: The Floral Park Villager, 821 Franklin Ave., Suite munities.
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nities. Last fall, Sukh launched his own company, Sukh Tech Solutions, Inc., a managed IT services provider delivering reliable, cost-efficient tech support to small- and mid-size businesses. With several clients and long workdays, his Floral Park-based company is steadily growing. One of his first outreach steps was joining the Floral Park Chamber of Commerce. The chamber’s monthly networking meetings allow Sukh to step out of his comfort
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dents competing at Sewanhaka on January 18th included Class of 2026 student Manraj Singh, along with Gurshan Sidhu, Nikhil Kandola, Seerat Kaur, Aviraj Multani, and Sukhpal Singh—Sukhsimran’s younger brother and a seventh grader from Floral Park. “I started the team with the help of the Sikh Youth of New York (SYNY).The organization’s goal is to empower the Sikh youth through Sangat, Seva and Sikhi-parchar but we are open to everyone. Every year, Robotics students are given three to four months to design and build a robot for a new ‘game’ competition. During weekend FIRST Robotics events, the team’s robot competes against three others on a 12-foot-by-12-foot field. Singh noted, “This year’s game is to pick up multi-colored balls and shoot them in the correct order into a goal.” Robotics teams from across Nassau and Suffolk counties are competing to advance to the Long Island FIRST Robotics Regional Championship at Hewlett High School on March 1st. From there, the winning team will advance to the 2026 FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston, Texas, scheduled for April 29th through May 2nd—an event that can draw more than 50,000 students. “In both my junior and senior years of high school, Sewanhaka CSD technically made it to FIRST World Championships but due to COVID-19 the event was cancelled in 2020,
then in 2021 it was held online. It was difficult in some ways but it was also better because the robot didn’t have to meet specs. It was also hard since a lot of senior-year students I knew who were looking forward to going to World Championships missed their opportunity,” Sukh shared. He said transitioning from Robotics student to mentor is very different from a former athlete becoming a coach. “Football stays the same, the rules don’t really change much, but with Robotics the kids now are worlds ahead. The stuff I was doing seven years ago and I felt that those were advanced tech, those things are for beginners now,” he explained. As a Robotics coach leading teams across Long Island, Singh has learned that success depends largely on student dedication. “If you get four or five kids who are really into creating the robot, they will teach themselves. The coach is really just there as the adult in the room. The students designed and built the entire robot by themselves, and I just helped with some things like cutting material with a saw,” he said. The 2021 Floral Park Memorial High School graduate initially studied physics at Stony Brook University, but later explored technology as a career path and developed expertise in computer operating systems management. “For about three semesters I pursued physics, and I did some See page 6
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