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Robotics

BEST Robotics

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Boosting Engineering, 

Science & Technology

  • Founded in Texas in 1993 by two engineers
  • Student teams are guided by professional mentors and school coaches. 
  • BEST has expanded to ~900 participating schools and over 18,000 student participants in over a dozen states.
  • Students have six weeks to design, develop, build and test a robot that can outperform their competitors.
  • Each team receives identical kits of parts including items such as plywood, metal and plastic sheet stock, nuts, bolts, screws, tapes, glue, pvc pipe and fittings, motors and servos. 
  • ​Winning teams from each Hub compete at the Regional competitions. 

 

 

 

 

Our team won Most Robust robot and 2nd place team at regionals.

Robotics

The Sweetwater Robotics Team won the BEST state competition at Rose State College. The theme this year was Incision Decision. The team then traveled to Dallas to compete at TEXAS BEST where they finished 50th out of 86 high school teams. Click BEST TEXAS Dallas 2023 to watch our kids at the competition. To find out more about Best, Inc and the competition click this link: Best Inc

 

A robotics team