2013 War Eagle BEST Mall Day

During the next few months, more than 25 schools from the east Alabama region will participate in a robotics competition, War Eagle BEST, sponsored by the COSAM Office of Outreach and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. The teams will first compete at War Eagle BEST Mall Day on Oct. 6, at 1 p.m. at the Village Mall in Auburn, and again on Oct. 19, at War Eagle BEST Gameday, which begins at 8 a.m. in the Auburn University Student Activity Center and lasts throughout the day. Winners from the War Eagle BEST Gameday will advance to South’s BEST, a regional robotics competition featuring winning teams from the eastern U.S., including Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and Pennsylvania. South’s BEST, which is also hosted by the COSAM Office of Outreach and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, will take place on the Auburn University campus on Dec. 8-9. All events are open to the public.

You can get involved:
“BEST” stands for Boosting Engineering Science and Technology, and is a national educational program offered to middle and high school students. The third-largest robotics program in the nation, BEST Robotics is the only program that is offered free of charge to schools. The primary objectives of the BEST Robotics program are to: provide students with a real-world engineering experience that incorporates the practical application of math and science; prepare students to be technologically literate and thus better prepared to enter the workforce; help students develop leadership, project management, teamwork and organizational skills; and develop confidence and competence. 
BEST Robotics achieves its objectives by enlisting the leadership of local industries who provide sponsorship and mentorship to area middle and high school student teams. Opportunities for industry leaders to get involved are still available. Please contact Mary Lou Ewald at ewaldml@auburn.edu for more information.