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4/6/17 - Team sign up is open! Please take a minute to login to your SA BEST account and signup your team for this year's competition - "Crossfire" on the schools page. Our schedule is currently unknown, but the date options are provided on the schedule page.

12/12/16 - Texas BEST/UIL Championship update

Congratulations to all of the SA BEST teams who participated in the Texas BEST/UIL Competition over the last few days. All of our teams did a great job of representing their schools and San Antonio BEST. Thanks teams!

Below is the list of awards that we noted:

Smithson Valley Middle School - Best T-Shirt, Second Place
Saint Mary's Hall – Founders Award, Third Place
Boerne Middle School South - Most Photogenic, Third Place
Stacey High School:
- Most Photogenic, First Place
- Judges Choice: Smallest School
United Engineering and Technology Magnet:
- Game Competition, Third Place
- Texas BEST Award, First Place
- UIL State Champion, Large School

UET deserves a big shout out for being the inaugural UIL State Robotics Champion in the BEST Division as a large school. Well done, team!

11/14/16 - Another batch of pictures are up. Have a look!

11/8/16 - Team pictures are up! We'll be posting more pictures over the next couple weeks.

The SA BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) competition is a contest held annually to inspire and interest students in the fields of science and engineering. With guidance from adult mentors, local teams of students design and build a remote controlled machine to accomplish a specific task. The students are given a box of raw materials from which to build the machine and 6 weeks to design and construct it. The task of the robot is kept secret until Kick-off Day, when all the teams are told what the robot is required to do. On Competition Day, all schools will compete head-on with each other in a thrilling science-fair-turned-sports-event. Several teams advance to the regional Texas Best competition and compete with the BEST robots from other areas. More information on the BEST concept is available.