BEST ROBOTICS

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BEST Robotics

BEST Robotics, Inc. is a non-profit, volunteer organization whose mission is to inspire middle through high school students to pursue careers in engineering, science and technology through participation in a sports-like, hands-on, real-world engineering-based robotics competition.  BEST was started by a couple engineers from Texas Instruments in 1993.  The BEST website is http://www.bestinc.org .  An overview video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHZxq7BFDEk .

Wolverine BEST Hub 2012 Competition

Grove City College is pleased to host the Wolverine BEST Hub.  This year's competition is called Warp XX and will solve a problem related to space exploration (teaser video available on the BEST website - www.bestinc.org ).  The dates for this year are Kick-Off Day, September 8, Mall Day, October 6 and Game Day, October 19 and 20.  Kick-Off and Game Day are at Grove City College.  More information will be coming shortly.  If you have questions, please contact the hub director: Dr. Mike Bright - mwbright@gcc.edu  or  724-450-4095.

We are pleased to announce the Grable Foundation (www.grable.org ) has already signed on as a Diamond Level sponsor - thanks to them!

A promotional video of the 2011 Wolverine BEST competition is available.  Note it is over 300 MB in size, so it might take a while to download.

Registration is currently open for the 2012 season.  To register, have an administrator at your school send an email to Mike Bright, mwbright@gcc.edu , indicating your commitment to participate and naming the lead teacher(s) including email address(es).  There are 28 slots this year, with 14 currently filled by: Clarion Area High School, Cornerstone Christian Preparatory Academy, Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy, DuBois Area High School, Family Instructors of the North Suburbs, Glenoak High School, Harbor Creek High School, Hickory High School, Mercer High School, Punxsutawney High School, Saegertown High School, Slippery Rock High School, Slippery Rock Middle School and West Middlesex High School.

Information on previous years is available at: Wolverine BEST Hub 2011 Wolverine BEST Hub 2010

Sponsors

The Wolverine BEST competition is offered to schools at no cost to the school.  Grove City College sponsors the venues and provides much of the people power to make this happen.  Materials to build the robots, materials to build the fields and operational costs are provided through the generous support of the sponsors.  The 2011 sponsors were:

Premier Sponsors - ANSYS, Inc. and the Buhl Foundation

Platinum Sponsor - Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc.

National Sponsors

We want to acknowledge national sponsors of BEST Robotics - Texas Instruments, MathWorks, Vex, Igus, SolidWorks, HSMWorks, Intelitek, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy and InspirTech.