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BEST ROBOTICS INC

BEST Robotics Inc. empowers students through hands-on robotics programs, fostering STEM skills and teamwork. Their mission is to inspire the next generation of innovators by providing engaging, real-world challenges in engineering and technology.

The Robotics Program we all know and love needs our help! Raise Funds. &nbsp;Earn Awesome Rewards. &nbsp;Build the Future. Teams have all summer to raise funds.Fundraiser ends September 1, 2026. Help us support all schools and students who want to participate in BEST Robotics. &nbsp;Did you know that BEST Robotics, Hub, and Regional Leaders have to raise&nbsp;approximately&nbsp;$2,500 per Team to host the BEST Robotics Program each year?Your support helps us keep the BEST Experience Fee-Free. $150 Raised:20 BEST Robotics Buttons for your Robotics Team. $1,500 Raised:Earns your school a BEST Robotics Spirit Prize Pack Includes: 30 BEST Robotics Buttons,&nbsp; 30 BEST Robotics Light Up Boom Sticks &amp;&nbsp; a Mini Manny Mascot to display at your school. $2,500 Raised:Earns your school a FREE Quadrant Practice Field Materials Kit&nbsp; for the 2026 Byte to Bite Competition.50 BEST Robotics Buttons,&nbsp; 50 BEST Robotics Light Up Boom Sticks &amp;&nbsp; a Mini Manny Mascot to display at your school. Every dollar makes an impact!Thank you for helping keep the BEST Experience accessible&nbsp;to every student &amp; every school!

The Robotics Program we all know and love needs our help!Raise Funds. Earn Awesome Rewards. Build the Future.Teams have all summer to raise funds.Fundraiser ends September 1, 2026.Help us support all schools and students who want to participate in BEST Robotics. Did you know that BEST Robotics, Hub, and Regional Leaders have to raise approximately $2,500 per Team to host the BEST Robotics Program each year?Your support helps us keep the BEST Experience Fee-Free.$150 Raised:20 BEST Robotics Buttons for your Robotics Team.$1,500 Raised:Earns your school a BEST Robotics Spirit Prize PackIncludes: 30 BEST Robotics Buttons, 30 BEST Robotics Light Up Boom Sticks & a Mini Manny Mascot to display at your school.$2,500 Raised:Earns your school a FREE Quadrant Practice Field Materials Kit for the 2026 Byte to Bite Competition.50 BEST Robotics Buttons, 50 BEST Robotics Light Up Boom Sticks & a Mini Manny Mascot to display at your school.Every dollar makes an impact!Thank you for helping keep the BEST Experience accessible to every student & every school!

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For 34 years, BEST Robotics has opened doors to STEM for students across the country, and we&#39;ve done it without ever charging students, teams, or schools program fees. This year, approximately 5,800 middle and high school students nationwide will spend eight weeks tackling Byte to Bite, our 2026 Food Systems Industry Robotics challenge, designing, building, and competing with robots inspired by the real engineering problems shaping the modern food service industry, encompassing food production, processing, packaging, distribution, and beyond. &nbsp;Every team receives an identical, fully consumable robotics kit. Every team gets the same shot.&nbsp; The cost to BEST Robotics to maintain our fee-free STEM Programming model comes in at $167 per student, per year.&nbsp; We invite you to consider adopting a BEST student or BEST Robotics Team at the following levels: $167: Adopt a BEST Robotics StudentFrom the team&#39;s Robotics Kit to funding their Competition Experience, a gift of $167 pays the way for one middle or high school student to experience the BEST Robotics Program. $500 Donate a BEST Robotics Team KitBEST isn&#39;t BEST without the proper Robotics Kit. Level Up Your Impact by purchasing a team&#39;s Robotics Kit for the 2026 Byte to Bite Competition. $500 provides all of the raw building materials and the average annual cost of the returnable V5 electronic components.&nbsp; $1,100 Purchase a BEST Robotics Returnable Kit A key cost-saving tool for the BEST Robotics fee-free program is the Returnable Robotics Kit. Our Hub Partners maintain a library of Vex V5 Robotics Kits that are loaned to a BEST Team each year and returned at the close of the season to be reused an average of 6 years. Your $1,100 donation purchases one Returnable Robotics Kit, ensuring your gift has a measurable impact for years to come.&nbsp; $2,500 Adopt a BEST Robotics Competition Team&nbsp;Why stop at 1 Student, when you can sponsor an entire team? Your $2,500 donation pays the way for one Robotics Team to experience the BEST Robotics Program this year. Your gift provides one team with a complete Byte to Bite Robotics Kit, funds the local Hub Robotics Competition, and supports the Regional Robotics Championship, where top teams advance to compete with other top-performing teams from nearby cities and states.&nbsp; When you sponsor a BEST student or team, you&#39;re not just funding a program; you&#39;re investing in a young person&#39;s future. You&#39;re giving the gift of inspiration and confidence, and new lifelong skills.&nbsp;

For 34 years, BEST Robotics has opened doors to STEM for students across the country, and we've done it without ever charging students, teams, or schools program fees.This year, approximately 5,800 middle and high school students nationwide will spend eight weeks tackling Byte to Bite, our 2026 Food Systems Industry Robotics challenge, designing, building, and competing with robots inspired by the real engineering problems shaping the modern food service industry, encompassing food production, processing, packaging, distribution, and beyond. Every team receives an identical, fully consumable robotics kit. Every team gets the same shot. The cost to BEST Robotics to maintain our fee-free STEM Programming model comes in at $167 per student, per year. We invite you to consider adopting a BEST student or BEST Robotics Team at the following levels:$167: Adopt a BEST Robotics StudentFrom the team's Robotics Kit to funding their Competition Experience, a gift of $167 pays the way for one middle or high school student to experience the BEST Robotics Program.$500 Donate a BEST Robotics Team KitBEST isn't BEST without the proper Robotics Kit. Level Up Your Impact by purchasing a team's Robotics Kit for the 2026 Byte to Bite Competition. $500 provides all of the raw building materials and the average annual cost of the returnable V5 electronic components. $1,100 Purchase a BEST Robotics Returnable KitA key cost-saving tool for the BEST Robotics fee-free program is the Returnable Robotics Kit. Our Hub Partners maintain a library of Vex V5 Robotics Kits that are loaned to a BEST Team each year and returned at the close of the season to be reused an average of 6 years. Your $1,100 donation purchases one Returnable Robotics Kit, ensuring your gift has a measurable impact for years to come. $2,500 Adopt a BEST Robotics Competition Team Why stop at 1 Student, when you can sponsor an entire team? Your $2,500 donation pays the way for one Robotics Team to experience the BEST Robotics Program this year. Your gift provides one team with a complete Byte to Bite Robotics Kit, funds the local Hub Robotics Competition, and supports the Regional Robotics Championship, where top teams advance to compete with other top-performing teams from nearby cities and states. When you sponsor a BEST student or team, you're not just funding a program; you're investing in a young person's future. You're giving the gift of inspiration and confidence, and new lifelong skills.

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As we begin another exciting BEST Robotics Byte to Bite season, Alabama A&amp;M University is proud to once again serve as the home of the South&rsquo;s BEST Regional Robotics Championship. We are preparing to welcome students, teachers, families, volunteers, and supporters to our campus for an unforgettable celebration of engineering, innovation, teamwork, and student achievement.For more than 30 years, BEST Robotics has provided students with an incredible opportunity to experience real-world STEM education through robotics, engineering design, marketing, project management, and problem-solving &mdash; at no cost to participating schools or students. At Alabama A&amp;M University, we are proud to be part of that legacy. In 2024, AAMU made history as the first HBCU to host a BEST Robotics Regional Championship, creating an opportunity for hundreds of students to experience our campus while competing alongside teams from across the Southeast.This year, we need your help to keep the BEST Robotics Fee-Free Promise alive.Like many nonprofit and educational programs, BEST Robotics and its regional partners are facing changes in funding availability. Longtime sponsors and community partners are also experiencing tighter budgets, while the costs associated with providing a high-quality championship experience continue to increase. It costs approximately $2,500 per team to provide the BEST Robotics experience each season. South&rsquo;s BEST and Alabama A&amp;M University remain committed to ensuring that a school&#39;s ability to participate is never determined by its ability to pay. That commitment means we must rely on businesses, organizations, alumni, community leaders, and friends of STEM education who believe in investing in the next generation.Your support of South&rsquo;s BEST helps us provide the competition experience, equipment, facilities, awards, event operations, student programming, and resources necessary to bring this extraordinary STEM opportunity to students throughout our region. Every contribution makes a difference.When you support South&rsquo;s BEST at Alabama A&amp;M University, you aren&#39;t simply sponsoring a robotics competition. You are investing in future engineers, scientists, programmers, entrepreneurs, educators, and problem-solvers.Together, we can keep BEST fee-free, accessible, and available to every student who deserves the opportunity to discover just how much they are capable of achieving.Help us keep the BEST Robotics Fee-Free Promise alive and continue making Alabama A&amp;M University a destination for student innovation, STEM excellence, and opportunity. We invite you to consider adopting a BEST student or BEST Robotics Team at the following levels: $167: Adopt a BEST Robotics StudentFrom the team&#39;s Robotics Kit to funding their Competition Experience, a gift of $167 pays the way for one middle or high school student to experience the BEST Robotics Program. $500 Donate a BEST Robotics Team KitBEST isn&#39;t BEST without the proper Robotics Kit. Level Up Your Impact by purchasing a team&#39;s Robotics Kit for the 2026 Byte to Bite Competition. $500 provides all of the raw building materials and the average annual cost of the returnable V5 electronic components.&nbsp; $1,100 Purchase a BEST Robotics Returnable Kit A key cost-saving tool for the BEST Robotics fee-free program is the Returnable Robotics Kit. Our Hub Partners maintain a library of Vex V5 Robotics Kits that are loaned to a BEST Team each year and returned at the close of the season to be reused an average of 6 years. Your $1,100 donation purchases one Returnable Robotics Kit, ensuring your gift has a measurable impact for years to come.&nbsp; $2,500 Adopt a BEST Robotics Competition Team&nbsp;Why stop at 1 Student, when you can sponsor an entire team? Your $2,500 donation pays the way for one Robotics Team to experience the BEST Robotics Program this year. Your gift provides one team with a complete Byte to Bite Robotics Kit, funds the local Hub Robotics Competition, and supports the Regional Robotics Championship, where top teams advance to compete with other top-performing teams from nearby cities and states.&nbsp; When you sponsor a BEST student or team, you&#39;re not just funding a program; you&#39;re investing in a young person&#39;s future. You&#39;re giving the gift of inspiration and confidence, and new lifelong skills.&nbsp;

As we begin another exciting BEST Robotics Byte to Bite season, Alabama A&M University is proud to once again serve as the home of the South’s BEST Regional Robotics Championship. We are preparing to welcome students, teachers, families, volunteers, and supporters to our campus for an unforgettable celebration of engineering, innovation, teamwork, and student achievement.For more than 30 years, BEST Robotics has provided students with an incredible opportunity to experience real-world STEM education through robotics, engineering design, marketing, project management, and problem-solving — at no cost to participating schools or students.At Alabama A&M University, we are proud to be part of that legacy. In 2024, AAMU made history as the first HBCU to host a BEST Robotics Regional Championship, creating an opportunity for hundreds of students to experience our campus while competing alongside teams from across the Southeast.This year, we need your help to keep the BEST Robotics Fee-Free Promise alive.Like many nonprofit and educational programs, BEST Robotics and its regional partners are facing changes in funding availability. Longtime sponsors and community partners are also experiencing tighter budgets, while the costs associated with providing a high-quality championship experience continue to increase.It costs approximately $2,500 per team to provide the BEST Robotics experience each season. South’s BEST and Alabama A&M University remain committed to ensuring that a school's ability to participate is never determined by its ability to pay.That commitment means we must rely on businesses, organizations, alumni, community leaders, and friends of STEM education who believe in investing in the next generation.Your support of South’s BEST helps us provide the competition experience, equipment, facilities, awards, event operations, student programming, and resources necessary to bring this extraordinary STEM opportunity to students throughout our region.Every contribution makes a difference.When you support South’s BEST at Alabama A&M University, you aren't simply sponsoring a robotics competition. You are investing in future engineers, scientists, programmers, entrepreneurs, educators, and problem-solvers.Together, we can keep BEST fee-free, accessible, and available to every student who deserves the opportunity to discover just how much they are capable of achieving.Help us keep the BEST Robotics Fee-Free Promise alive and continue making Alabama A&M University a destination for student innovation, STEM excellence, and opportunity.We invite you to consider adopting a BEST student or BEST Robotics Team at the following levels:$167: Adopt a BEST Robotics StudentFrom the team's Robotics Kit to funding their Competition Experience, a gift of $167 pays the way for one middle or high school student to experience the BEST Robotics Program.$500 Donate a BEST Robotics Team KitBEST isn't BEST without the proper Robotics Kit. Level Up Your Impact by purchasing a team's Robotics Kit for the 2026 Byte to Bite Competition. $500 provides all of the raw building materials and the average annual cost of the returnable V5 electronic components. $1,100 Purchase a BEST Robotics Returnable KitA key cost-saving tool for the BEST Robotics fee-free program is the Returnable Robotics Kit. Our Hub Partners maintain a library of Vex V5 Robotics Kits that are loaned to a BEST Team each year and returned at the close of the season to be reused an average of 6 years. Your $1,100 donation purchases one Returnable Robotics Kit, ensuring your gift has a measurable impact for years to come. $2,500 Adopt a BEST Robotics Competition Team Why stop at 1 Student, when you can sponsor an entire team? Your $2,500 donation pays the way for one Robotics Team to experience the BEST Robotics Program this year. Your gift provides one team with a complete Byte to Bite Robotics Kit, funds the local Hub Robotics Competition, and supports the Regional Robotics Championship, where top teams advance to compete with other top-performing teams from nearby cities and states. When you sponsor a BEST student or team, you're not just funding a program; you're investing in a young person's future. You're giving the gift of inspiration and confidence, and new lifelong skills.

Keep the BEST Free: South’s BEST Fundraising Campaign

From Seed to STEM: BEST is Cultivating Tomorrow&rsquo;s Leaders For more than 30 years, BEST Robotics has identified and developed high-potential middle and high school students, reaching talent often overlooked by traditional pathways through our fee-free engineering and programming model. In 2025 alone, we engaged more than 5,700 students across 19 states in a real-world, industry-driven robotics challenge. You&#39;re invited to partner with us on Game Day to introduce the BEST Community to your brand.&nbsp; Speak directly with BEST students by hosting a table at one or more of our Regional Championship College &amp; Career Fair events, or expand your ROI and become a BEST Robotics Sponsor.

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