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RM BEST Teacher / Mentor Newsletter 1
January 2021
  • Please REPLY if you do NOT want to be on our 2021 Distribution List
2021 BEST Robotics Season
We are excited to be hosting our 12th annual BEST Robotics Fall Competition. Here is an early look at our plans.

WHAT IS PLANNED:
  • BEST Robotics is developing plans for a 2021 Game. The game is again planned to be offered at three levels to be able to respond to school needs: Hub, Classroom & Online.
  • Rocky Mountain BEST hopes to provide teams a robot kit to build a physical robot and offer at least a BEST Classroom competition.
WHAT IS UNKNOWN:
  • 2021 Game
  • Summer Teacher / Mentor Institute Training Schedule
  • Fall Competition Schedule
  • DENVER BEST Regional Championship

We will provide updates as we get more information including how to register your team.
We hope to see you and your students at our 2021 Competition.
FREE Virtual Teachers Teaching Technology Conference
13, 20, 27 February Saturdays
TI Teachers Conference
2021 Virtual T³IC Conference Opportunity

Texas Instruments has arranged for a complimentary registration for BEST Robotics coaches to attend this conference. 
Please REPLY to this newsletter to request the USE CODE for complimentary registration.

Registration is now open via the link below for the Texas Instruments technology conference for educators.
  • Sessions include coding and robotics and several on math, science and STEM and ALSO on how to use TI Technology in the classroom.
  • Sessions are applicable to middle AND high school level teachers although some sessions are more appropriate for higher grade levels.
  • All of the sessions will be available ON DEMAND to registrants through the end of May 2021. 
  • Participants receive a certificate of attendance by email.
  • Participants may receive 1.5 CEUs through Adams State University. An additional fee applies.
Questions?
2020 Outbreak Competition
2020 Game Logo Tag Line
2020 Parent/Student Post Season Survey
YOUR HELP Is Needed to Continue to
Provide FREE Competition
WHAT:
  • BEST Robotics and Rocky Mountain BEST use hub level student information from the Post Event Survey to obtain grants to fund our free competition.
  • We require the funds from these grants to be able to provide our competition free to schools.
  • Only 3 of 7 teams have any surveys submitted, with only 13 of 68 students completing the survey.
HOW:
  • See your BEST Registry team roster to know which students have completed the survey.
  • The survey is expected to only take 5 minutes to complete. Here is a document link to 2 pages with the STUDENT SURVEY/DEMOGRAPHICS QUESTIONS collected at the link below.
  • Parents use the link below for Quick instructions with the REGISTRY LOGIN link to logon to their account and access the survey.
MORE HELP: Please let us know if you have a better way for us to obtain this survey information described at .
BEST Robotics Inc Team Survey
Teachers / Mentors / Student 2020 Survey
BEST Robotics Inc. created a TEAM survey to gather inputs to help us improve our competition.
The survey at the link below is intended for BEST 2020 Competition Teachers, Mentors and Students.
It has questions concerning various attributes of the program and its execution.

Thank you for taking a few minutes to provide BEST Robotics with this valuable feedback.
Outbreak Game Results
Leaderboard
Check Out How Your Team Compared to Other BEST Teams

All 2020 BEST hub teams results and results for BEST Regional Championship are available on the BEST Leaderboard at the link below.
The following levels are available for Rocky Mountain BEST hub teams:

HUB LEVEL
  1. Head-To-Head Competition Results - NONE: Online competition
  2. BEST Award
  3. Skills Award
NATIONAL RANKINGS-HUB
  1. Head-To-Head Competition Results - NONE: Online competition
  2. BEST Award by component
  3. Skills Award by component
  4. Robot Performance - NONE: Denver BEST Championship not held
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP - NONE: Denver BEST Championship not held