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| 10/15/2008 2:36:00 PM | Email this article • Print this article |
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| BEST ROBOTICS: Heartland Home Education students will enter the B.E.S.T. Robotics Competition Oct. 25 in St. Louis. On the team: top row left to right, Luke Belamy, Krischan Zinecker, Steve Oetting, Garrick Zinecker, Ross Huntington, and Hannah Huntington; bottom row left to right: Daniel Rodriguez, Thomas Garretson, and Levi Sherman |
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Area home school students to
compete in B.E.S.T. Robotics
Hannah Huntington
Special to the Star-Journal
Area Home Schoolers, within the Heartland Home Educators (H.H.E.) group, are to compete in a B.E.S.T. robotics competition on October 25th this year. They call themselves the "H.H.E. Stealth Robotics."
"BEST is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization whose mission is to inspire students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participation in a sports-like, science and engineering-based robotics competition." (www.BESTinc.org) Each year there is a new theme. This year's is 'Just Plane Crazy!'
The competition began on September 13th in St. Louis with the Kick-Off.Each team received identical kits of equipment (motors, r/c unit, batteries, etc.) and raw materials from which to build their machines, and a detailed set of game rules.
The robots can be no more than 24 pounds and must fit within a 24-inch cube. Only the raw materials provided by BEST may be used in the construction, also.
On game day the team will receive points based on the requirements accomplished.
The robot must be able to press a lever to open a airplane hangar door, traverse a field strewn with large obstacles, retrieve and assemble airplane parts, and then hang the completed airplanes from a magnetic mobile in the center of the playing field all within three minutes.
The team must also make marketing presentations, design and build a trade show booth, find sponsors, keep a log and promote the team and BEST through all forms of media.
From beginning to end the team has only six weeks to complete these requirements. If they win in St. Louis in October, the H.H.E. Stealth Robotics team will go on to Arkansas for the next phase of competition.
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