Editing BEST Robotics (section)

{{Infobox sports league
| title           = BEST Robotics Competition
| last_season     = Low-G
| upcoming_season = FACTIODS
| logo            = 
| caption         = The competition's logo
| sport           = [[Robotics]]-related games
| founded         = 1993
| director        = Michael Steiner
| president       = Dr. Mike Bright
| inaugural       = 1993
| teams           = 1000+
| country         = [[United States of America]]
| champion        = 224 - St. Mark's School of Texas (BEST-Open) <br> 91 - Trenton High School (UIL-S) <br> 6 - United Engineering and Technology Magnet (UIL-L)
| founder         = Ted Mahler <br> Steve Marum
| website         = [http://www.bestinc.org www.bestinc.org]
}}

'''BEST''' ('''''B'''oosting '''E'''ngineering, '''S'''cience, and '''T'''echnology'') is a national six-week [[robotics]] competition in the [[United States]] held each fall, designed to help interest middle school and high school students in possible [[engineering]] careers. The games are similar in scale to those of the [[FIRST Tech Challenge]].<ref name="GuraKing2007">{{cite book 
| author1   = Mark Gura
  | author2   = Kathleen P. King
  | title     = Classroom Robotics: Case Stories of 21st Century Instruction for Millennial Students
  | url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=Om-bIgJzT8UC&pg=PA203
  | date      = 1 January 2007
  | publisher = IAP
  | isbn      = 978-1-59311-602-6
  | pages     = 203–
}}</ref><ref name="PurzerStrobel2014">{{cite book
  | author1   = Senay Purzer
  | author2   = Johannes Strobel
  | author3   = Monica E. Cardella
  | title     = Engineering in Pre-College Settings: Synthesizing Research, Policy, and Practices
  | url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=wPsVBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA390
  | date      = 15 August 2014
  | publisher = Purdue University Press
  | isbn      = 978-1-55753-691-4
  | pages     = 390–
}}</ref><ref name="Angelo2007">{{cite book
  | author    = Joseph A. Angelo
  | title     = Robotics: A Reference Guide to the New Technology
  | url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=73kNFV4sDx8C&pg=PA401
  | year      = 2007
  | publisher = Libraries Unlimited
  | isbn      = 978-1-57356-337-6
  | pages     = 401–
}}</ref>