Challenges in Reserving Venues

Our favorite venues have changed their reservation systems to accept reservation requests during the summer for fall events. We will replace our TBDs below as venues are confirmed.

SPRING ACTIVITIES

• March and April: Our leadership is working with BEST Robotics Inc and all the local hubs to improve the Incision Decision Game concept, rules, and field drawings.

SUMMER ACTIVITIES

• 11-13 July: Free Teacher / Mentor Institute at St Mary's Catholic Church Littleton
• TBD July: Game Field Cut Day - Denver No specific skills required, with woodworking skills a plus.
• TBD July - August: Game Field Building - Generally requires woodworking skills and tools.

FALL SEASON ACTIVITIES

Please reference our 2022 Event Volunteers webpage for example volunteer task descriptions and reference material.

ROCKY MTN BEST

• TBD September: Kickoff
• TBD October: Critical Design Review Presentation Online Scheduled Judging
• TBD October/November: Practice Day and BEST Award Marketing Presentation Judging
• TBD October / November: Online Self-Paced Engineering Notebook Judging
• TBD November: Game Day / Award Ceremony includes Judging

DENVER BEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

• TBD November/December: Online Self-Paced Engineering Notebook Judging
• TBD December: 2-day Regional Championship and Judging

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. 

FUNDRAISING

It takes $89K/year to cover our costs to have a free competition at both the local level and the Regional Championship level. 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.

Early Preview of Donated Items

We were excited to be invited to participate in the University of Denver Women in STEM alumnae network virtual meeting in March.

Attending the meeting were about 20 women most of whom graduated recently from the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics or the Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science.

The exciting projects underway at Sierra Space including their Dream Chaser® Spaceplane were shared by a current employee. Information about their aerospace work was enthusiastically received by those attending.

We presented a quick overview of BEST Robotics and the opportunities for volunteering to inspire the next generation of students. We plan to present more volunteer details at a future meeting closer to our fall events.

The volunteer sheet at the button below was shared and we ask you to share this sheet with anyone interested in volunteering with us.