Welcome to Rocky Mountain BEST
Rocky Mountain BEST runs an annual robotics competition
and Regional Championship for middle & high school students
∗∗∗ What’s NEW? ∗∗∗
2021 DEMO DAZE Game Season Highlights
Teaser Video
2021 Event Dates (For detailed information and links to activities, see 2021 Competition Page)
| 2021 Event | Date | Location/Time | Comments |
| Kickoff | 11 September | Event Reveal Online: 9-11AM & 11AM-Noon Breakout Q&A’s Game Field View (Lobby) & Robot Kit Pick Up: | ***Breakout Training Videos available starting NLT 7 September |
| NA | 16 October Saturday | CDR Presentation & Judging Online: Schedule to be provided | |
| Practice Day | 23 October Saturday | Englewood HS DRAFT Schedule: Noon – 5PM (subject to change) | Engineering Notebook Marketing Presentation |
| Game Day | 6 November Saturday | Auraria Event Center Schedule to be provided | Head-2-Head Robot Competition Team Exhibits and Interview |
| Denver BEST Regional Championship | 11-12 December | Arapahoe County Fairgrounds | Qualifying Teams Invited |
- Teams will build a physical robot using our FREE robot kit
- Season expanded to 8-weeks
- New ONLINE Simulink and MATLAB version
- A mix of online and in person Volunteer Judging
- Free Teacher Mentor Institute Workshop 13 – 15 July – Registration link
- Improved BEST Robotics TEAM education program – More, Shorter, Earlier, Focused
- bESTology started 25 April – Look for 9 weekly posts
- Repeat Simulink 6-week BEST webinars start 30 June
Teachers and Mentors – Don’t Miss Out – Registration is OPEN and Simulink license is available NOW!
2020 – Looking Back
Our Mission
To engage, excite, and inspire students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math through participation in a sports-like science and engineering-based robotics competition.
Our Goals
To become a premier robotics competition for the Rocky Mountain Region.
To build strong community-based support for our activities.
To form alliances with organizations who serve youth locally and deliver the BEST product possible to schools and their students.
To motivate students for studies and careers in engineering, science, and technology.
Competition
We are an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation created to host an annual robotics competition for middle and high school students. There are no entry fees for our competition. We provide an identical set of robot building materials to each participating school at no cost.
This unique event consists of:
- the excitement of a basketball game
- the strategy of a chess match
- the intellectual challenge of a science fair
- the pressure of a competitive sporting event
- plus hundreds of screaming fans, pep bands, cheerleaders, music, dancing and mascots.
