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RM BEST Teacher / Mentor Newsletter 2
April 2022
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2022 BEST Robotics Season
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REGISTRY NOW AVAILABLE to register your school. Use the steps below. We hope to see your teams this fall!

  • Rocky Mountain BEST 13th Annual BEST Robotics Fall Education Program with the Made 2 Order game

  • BEST Robotics 30th Anniversary year long activities.

  • Spring Autonomous Programming Challenge (5 March - 30 April) - based on Demo Daze game, activities finishing up this month. Learn More at this LINK

Please reply to this email with any questions. I'd love to talk with you!

2022 SCHEDULE - PLEASE ADD TO YOUR CALENDARS

Summer Teacher / Mentor Training
  • Tuesday - Thursday 12-14 July - Teacher / Mentor Institute – Free Summer Training, 12-14 July, St Mary’s Church, 6853 S Prince St, Littleton, SAVE THE DATES -Coming soon, sign up link

Eight-Week Fall Hub Season
  • Saturday 17 September - Hub Kickoff Event – Game Reveal, Robot Material Distribution and Training, Englewood High School, 3800 S Logan St,
  • Saturday 22 October - Online Critical Design Review Presentation
  • Saturday 29 October - Engineering Notebook Delivery Due
  • Saturday 29 October - Hub Practice Day Event – Team Practice and Optional BEST Award Marketing Presentation - TBD Location (Back Up Plan: Saturday 22 October - Englewood High School, 3800 S Logan St )
  • Saturday 12 November - Hub Game Day Event – Team Competition, Judging and Optional BEST Award Team Exhibit and Interviews, Englewood High School, 3800 S Logan St
Regional Championship
  • Saturday - Sunday 3-4 Dec - Denver BEST Regional Championship – Qualifying schools by invitation. Finalizing possible Colorado School of Mines venues. More details to be provided.

COMING SOON - Made 2 Order Game Teaser Video with 30th Anniversary highlights
Register NOW to Reserve a Spot
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Please Complete These Steps to Register your School

  • Step 1 - Primary Teacher (aka teacher or mentor that registers School) use a Natoinal Registry account to register your school. Use the button above to log into your account or to create an account if you do not have one. If a new account, select Rocky Mountain BEST as your hub.
  • Step 2 - Primary Teacher completes this step using the detailed Registry Instructions at this link. Select the blue Register a School button on the Schools page. Select Rocky Mountain BEST as your hub. Find your prior School Profile by selecting your school from the popup list of prior schools. OR If you are registering a new school, CREATE NEW School with button at bottom of the list.

Additional Teachers are associated with the registered school as Secondary or Assistant Teachers via the Registry Instructions at this link.

You’ll receive an email when your registration is approved
  • bESTology - Jump start your teams with 10 Weekly web postings for the Made 2 Order game including Game Theme related topics; Class/group or individual exercises; Research, writing, thinking, learning.
  • Current Postings:
  1. Defining Automatic
  2. What Job Where?
  3. Picking Which Way
  4. Control? What Is In Control?
  5. Choosing Your ARMs
  6. It’s A Matter Of Sense(ors) 
  7. Where Are My Arms? Topics Sensors Path Orientation 
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We have already received over 170 terrific auction items with amazing bargains!
And we have have fantastic sponsorship options to make even more of a difference!

YOUR participation and generosity helps us bring our yearly robotics education program to middle and high school students - at no cost to schools.   
Fantastic SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES for a Variety of Budgets
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Awesome BARGAINS with a variety of OPENING BIDS
Boosting BEST Auction Items
Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) Program (Grades 3-5)
National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
Announces Free Virtual Camp

Use this LINK to obtain more information and to register for this free virtual camp, which is open to Grades 3-5 students. 

Northrop Grumman Foundation is one of the presenting sponsors for this program. Northrop Grumman is also one of our sponsors.
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