Oak Mountain High Tech Solutions, Oak Mountain High School’s robotics team, advanced to the B.E.S.T. (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) national/world competition in Orlando.
The team qualified by earning the second place overall award at the South’s B.E.S.T. competition Nov. 19-21at Auburn University.
The contest included 61 middle and high school teams from the eastern U.S. OMHS High Tech Solutions is one of 24 teams of 800 nationally and one of only three in Alabama to advance to the national/world competition.
The team won first place for marketing presentation and for spirit and sportsmanship, second place for booth engineering and construction and third place for most elegant robot and website design.
Oak Mountain’s creative theme for this year’s competition was Dr. Seuss’ “We Will Succeed, Yes We Will, Indeed, 99.99966% Guaranteed!”
The team incorporated the Six Sigma management and engineering processes in building and testing the robot design. The High Tech Solutions team also developed an iPhone application for the competition and an on-line digital photo site.
The B.E.S.T. national/world competition will be at the ESPN Zone Complex at Walt Disney World April 14-16.
