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11/21/11 - Congratulations to Robert E Lee High School, Madison High School, Saint Mary's Hall School, Stacey High School, and United Engineering and Technology Magnet (UETM), for their participation at Texas BEST this past weekend. These teams did a wonderful job of representing San Antonio BEST. We don't have results for all the teams (sorry guys), but I will share that UETM finished third in the competition and won the BEST award! Awesome job!

10/23/11 - Pictures from the 2011 competition are now available. Team pictures are also available.

10/17/11 - A summary of the BEST Award scores by team is now available here.

10/16/11 - We hope everyone is enjoying a day of rest after yesterday's great competition. We saw some very creative machines, great sportsmanship, and great teamwork . We saw teams adapt to problems and hang in there throughout the day. The results of the event are below. More details, and more pictures will be posted soon.

San Antonio BEST Award Results:

  1. United Engineering and Technology Magnet*
  2. Robert E Lee High School*
  3. Saint Mary's Hall School*
  4. St. Anthony Catholic High School

Competition Results:  

  1. Stacey High School*
  2. United Engineering and Technology Magnet*
  3. Madison High School*
  4. Robert E Lee High School*
  5. Lutheran High School of San Antonio
  6. Saint Mary's Hall School*
  7. St. Gregory the Great School
  8. Alamo Home School

* These are the 5 teams advancing to Texas BEST from SA BEST

Other Awards:

  • Founders Award - 
    1. William Howard Taft High School
    2. Antonian College Preparatory High School
  • Most Robust - Stacey High School
  • Most Photogenic - Navarro High School
  • Best Table Display and Interview - Saint Mary's Hall School
  • Most Spirit and Sportsmanship - St. Anthony Catholic High School
  • BEST T-shirt - William Howard Taft High School
  • BEST Use of Game Theme - Robert E Lee High School
  • Blood, Sweat and Duct Tape - Holy Spirit Catholic School
  • SAME Award - Providence Catholic High School

A summary of the seeding results and semi/final results are available.

10/13/11 - The competition is this Saturday (10/15) at St Mary's University in the Alumni Athletics and Convocation Center. Admission is free and everyone is invited. Matches should start around 8:30 AM and go until 3:30 PM or so. Please come out and support our students. It should be loud and fun!

Teams: There will be 6 seeding rounds. Please make sure that you turn in your driver's roster on Friday while your machine is being inspected.

10/10/11 - Please take a look at this information relating to the events and schedule for this final week of SA BEST.

9/26/11 - We've updated a few of the links since the rules no longer are password protected and we discovered the Texas BEST website for 2011. Teams can help us out by updating their profile information. Remember that the profile information you enter on this website is what we use for the printed program. It's a great chance to recognize everyone who contributed to the team.

9/18/11 - Believe it or not, the first two weeks of your development time are gone! Only three weeks until demo-day. Can your robot move yet? Please take a moment and update your team information. You'll also notice that the notebook upload link now exists for team administrators. This link will cease to function after 3:00 pm on October 9th (Demo Day) - please don't wait until 2:59 to find out how accurate the clock is on the web server.

9/5/11 - We have 31 teams off and running after the kickoff on 9/3. Kit training is this Saturday 9/10 at St. Mary's University - please remember to bring your computer (with software) and your complete return kit (with charged batteries). There are two sessions offered. We'll make sure that you know the basics of programming the Cortex and/or help you with your software setup. And no, we can't help you with your Mac - sorry.

 

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.

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for their contributions to all  BEST hubs through their Yes Program

 

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