Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology

  Welcome to NMSU's website for Boosting Engineering, Science,
and Technology (B.E.S.T.) This competition exposes middle and high school
students to the concepts of engineering and technology through a robotics design
challenge. Annually in September, teams of middle and high school students
receive a box of parts and electronics to design and build remote-controlled
robots to accomplish a specific task. In six weeks the teams design and build
prototypes, stage mock competitions, compete against each other locally, and
then move on to a regional play-off and championship.

  Legislators and educators say that for the United States to stay competitive in
the future, schools must graduate students more skilled in science, while industry
complains of a dearth of qualified applicants. BEST Robotics Inc. addresses this with
the BEST competition, taking the intimidation factor out of engineering and making
it a sport.