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About BEST

 

 

What is BEST?

 

Boosting

Engineering

Science &

Technology

 

Take plywood and a box filled with items such as PVC pipe, screws and other hardware, an irrigation valve cover, piano wire, aluminum paint grid, a bicycle inner tube, a BRAIN (BEST Robotics Advanced Instruction Node programmable platform), and something called a micro-energy chain system and try, within six weeks, to design and build a functioning machine that can perform certain, specific tasks in three minutes. What do you get?

You get BEST, a middle and high school robotics competition whose mission is to engage and excite students about engineering, science, and technology as well as inspire them to pursue careers in these fields.

Through participation in our project-based STEM program, students learn to analyze
and solve problems utilizing the Engineering Design Process, which
helps them develop technological literacy skills. It is these skills that industry seeks
in its workforce.

Each fall, over 750 middle and high schools and over 11,000 students participate in the competition.

       

About Heartland BEST

Heartland BEST is the hub that the Shattuck Robotics team competes at. It is located in Alva, OK. NWOSU generously supports and hosts the BEST Robotics Program. Most of the Heartland BEST Staff are employed at the university.

                                                                              

Frontieer Trails BEST hosts the Regional-National Contest that teams earn the right to attend by placing 1st or 2nd in the BEST or Robot competitions.