Text Box:       Text Box:  TEAM WORK Text Box: MADISON  MAVERICKS Text Box: BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) is a program designed to show high school students how engineering can be fun and exiting in all and different ways. The BEST program sponsors schools like Madison high school to work as a team to build a remote controlled robot designed to accomplish a task. This years task is too help one another to put different types of balls into a certain area, using a crane. Each team is given the exact number of parts to design the machine.  The only materials aloud to be used is the materials given kick off day. The building process involves thinking, hard work, and the #1 factor we do best is Teamwork. when it is time to start the competition we start on kick of day and are given, The time period of the contest. The game is limited to a six week period to simulate a product time to market constraint. The resources for the contest. Each team is given an identical box of odd parts, fasteners, materials, and a radio controller for motors. The specifications for the contest. At kickoff, a detailed game task description will be given to each team. This description is the most closely held secret in the process, known only to a select few BEST game designers before the kickoff. At the competition,  Schools are encouraged to bring their banners, cheerleaders, mascots,  bands,  and what ever they want to add to the sports-like atmosphere.                                                                       

 

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Text Box:   The James Madison high school BEST team would like to Thank the Schraer Construction CO. and  AMBER OAKS   for supporting us in our competition. Text Box: SPONSORS Text Box:   TEAM LOGO AND SHIRT DESIGN

    

                                                                                                                                                       

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