LEADERSHIP TEAM PARTICIPATION IN EARLY SEASON REVIEWS

• Friday - Saturday 3-4 May - Prototype Game Weekend - BEST's large volunteer base continues their feedback from the March Proto Season Kickoff and now have opportunity to test the field with volunteer created robots.

NEW VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY @ TEACHER MENTOR SUMMER TRAINING

• Want to learn to build a robot and get more involved as a volunteer or possibly help mentor a team?
• Please reply if you would like to learn more about participating in our 3-day training.
• Tuesday - Thursday 16-18 July St Mary's Catholic Church Littleton

EVENT SCHEDULE & MORE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES COMING THIS SUMMER

GAME DETAILS REVEALED IN SEPTEMBER

NEW BEST CONTROL SYSTEM - A BOLD DECISION

• What is a Gizmo?
• It is a new controller for BEST team's robots.
• It has many of the same features and functions that students are familiar with, plus some new ones.
• It uses 2 Raspberry PI PICO modules, a System Processor and a Student Processor, and all the same peripherals students already know.
• Firmware is loaded on the system processor. Students write their own code for the student processor (C++ or Circuit Python or MicroBlocks). 

TWO EXCITING WAYS TO BID

• Bid on Retail / Restaurant Gift Certificates & Cards & Items
• Sponsor our talented Teams and Students

YOU CAN HELP

• Please contact lois.walton@bestinc.org to provide a donated gift card or certificate or item from a favorite retailer or restaurant

AUCTION

• Look for this year's Auction Link later in April to preview auction items
• Auction items available for bidding 10-19 May

Our volunteers attended the meeting to continue to support DU’s connection with BEST.

A speaker of note was Patrick Miller who talked about cybersecurity and infrastructure. He discussed the importance of creating dynamic, diverse, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, like the teams that BEST students use.

SOCIAL MEDIA COMMITTEE

• We are looking for individuals to join our Social Media committee. to help frame and guide the development of social media for our hub. 
• Social media experience is a bonus but not required.
• Estimated 3-4 hours/month, schedule to be determined by committee.
• If you are interested, please contact Gwynn Moore at gwynn.moore@bestinc.org.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS POSITIONS

• We are looking for enthusiastic RM BEST advocates to join 6 other board members to help us fulfill and advance our mission.
• Especially helpful if you have contacts to expand our community connections and fundraising opportunities.
• You can support from home. Monthly meetings are held online. To learn more about these positions, please contact Carolyn.Bauer@bestinc.org. 

NEW SPONSORS: Know a company or foundation that might want to hear about how they can help provide our inspiring STEM program free to schools?  Please contact Carolyn.Bauer@bestinc.org to learn more.