Welcome to San Antonio BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology). We are the BEST Robotics game hub supporting robotics competitions for schools in the San Antonio and surrounding areas. 2025 marks our 33 year helping middle school, high school, and home school students in learning the fun of problem solving as a team. The competition centers on a game-based problem for the students to solve by designing and building robots from materials that we provide for free. The students learn to share ideas and work together while having fun learning that it takes more than technical savvy to create a robot. Explore this site to learn how you can participate as a student on a team or as a teacher, mentor, or volunteer. There are many ways to get involved. We hope you can join us on this exciting journey.

The Facts are in. The Game is afoot.

The 2025 season has begun and now it's up to you. This year is all about FACTOIDS -- sorting through the facts to determine what is true and what is false (check out the teaser video). It's your mission to work together as a team, building your own sorting robot and earning as many points as you can both throughout the building process and on game day. Have fun with your teammates discussing game strategies and designing a machine that can help you score the most points. Remember though, it's not just about game day, but also about learning to solve problems and having fun with your buddies along the way. Get those brainstorming sessions going. Truly, no idea is a dumb idea. Toss it out there in your group and see if it sparks a solution. Wishing the best of times to all you students, teachers, and mentors. Let's have some fun! See you along the way.

SA BEST, the Best Robotics game hub for the San Antonio and surrounding areas, kicked off this year's competition season on Saturday, September 6 at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. At Kickoff, students, teachers, and mentors got to hear all about this year's FACTOIDS game and see the game field. It was exciting for all. Over the next few weeks, we will be here to answer questions and provide help. Check out our Contacts page for information.

Sign up to Volunteer or Mentor

If you'd like to sign up to help with SA BEST, we'd love to have you participate.  Please take a moment to register at the BEST National Registry.  You should designate San Antonio as the "hub" and you can sign up as a volunteer, or mentor (or both!).  Mentors work directly with the students build the robot while Volunteers help to prepare and run the competition as well as judge certain aspects of the team's efforts.  Check out the current list of available Volunteer Opportunities.

Click here to volunteer.

2025 SA BEST Schedule

We are pleased to inform you that St. Mary's University will again host the San Antonio BEST kick-off, demo day, and game day activities this Fall.  The schedule is as follows:

* Due time is always 7:00pm (CDT) for online registrations and submissions.

Schedule information appears in the Team Workflow. Team Workflow is where all signups and registrations are done.