Every year, our robotics team competes in BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) robotics competition. The competition and the kick off are held at Grove City College. The competition has a theme, that's different every year. This year's theme in farming, and titled "Bet the Farm".
The robot has to navigate a course that fallows the farming theme. On Game Day (competition), our robot participates in multiple rounds, and scores points by completing different, farm related, tasks. The Engineers have to design and build a robot to accomplish as many tasks as possible in a three-minute time frame, as efficiently as possible. The difference between BEST robotics and other robotics competitions is that with BEST, you have to not only build a robot, but a company as well. Therefore, we have an engineering team, and a marketing team. The job of the marketing team is to raise publicity for our company; raise money to market and travel if we make it to the finals; build the display booth for Game Day; and present to judges, businesses, and local schools. Last year, together we placed sixth overall for the BEST award. So far, our engineers have started designing and building the robot in hopes to have a working robot by Mall Day. (Mall day is a day where all the teams come together in the Ross Park Mall to practice on the full game field, and to get a peek at the other teams' robots.) Our marketers have started to design the booth, and invent the logo and T-shirts.
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