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Re: Best Is Good
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Originally Posted by Billfred
I'm not sure who really got the proverbial ball rolling--the two seemed to start on opposite ends of the country (FIRST in New Hampshire, BEST in Texas). So I don't know whether it's safe to say one was cloned from the other or not. All I can tell from the site is that FIRST got Maize Craze out before BEST started...and one year can't make that much of a difference, can it?
It again, all started with Woody.

"The idea for a BEST competition originated several years ago when two Texas Instruments engineers, Ted Mahler and Steve Marum, were serving as guides for Engineering Day at their company site in Sherman. Together with a group of high school students, they watched a video of freshmen building a robot in Woody Flowers' class at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The high school students were so interested that Ted and Steve said, "Why don't we do this?"

http://www.bestinc.org/MVC/About/history
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