News
04/04/10 - Sign-up is now available for this year's SA BEST competition. Just make sure that you are logged into your SA BEST account first, and then click the sign-up link. For those who can't remember their password, please go to the login page, enter your username and then select the "Forgot my password" button - a new password will be sent automatically. The tentative schedule for this year has also been posted with kickoff on September 11, and game day listed as October 23.
12/13/09 - Congratulations to our teams for their excellent showing at Texas BEST. United Engineering and Technology Magnet finished second in the BEST award and will be advancing to the first-ever National Championship in Dallas (April 23-24). New Braunfels Home School picked up the first place award for Most Robust, the second place award for Most Elegant, and made it into the semi finals after finishing 5th in the seeding competition. Taft High School end up fifth overall after finishing 6th to make it into the semi-finals, and won third place for Most Elegant. Holy Cross and Lee High School also did a fine job of representing SA BEST.
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.
Sponsors
SA BEST appreciates the contributions of all sponsors, but would particularly like to recognize
for their contributions to all BEST hubs through their Yes Program
