Organization and BEST Robotics

[Andrew Schuetze]

Originally Posted by santosh

I know that a few of the FIRST Teams here also have a BEST robotics team, but I was curious as to how many FIRST Teams also have a BEST Robotics team.

Also, I was wondering what all you use this competition for. We use it to get our underclassmen accustomed to robotics. Some teams may use it to get warmed up before FIRST. What do you guys use the competition for if you have a BEST Robotics Team?

I searched for a thread like this but could not find one. Sorry if there is one like this.

BEST has been a topic on the boards before and probably most recently as last August or so.

Team 499, Toltechs, are a district FIRST team and each of our high schools enters a seperate BEST team in the SA-BEST hub. Any chance to design and work strategy is usually good. Once you do FIRST, it gets a bit frustrating to deal with the small motors and historically limited drive train type linkages. The did add some timing belt and pulleys in recent years and are hinting at some new and improved KOP items this year. The BEST game also leaves out the programmers until the Infinity Kits become part of the package


So, we use it to get the students engaged and draw our FIRST team members from this event since each school has a team and makes it easier for me, the district main sponsor, to identify students at the other campuses.