Bonham, Texas -- The Bonham Warrior Robotics Team is headed back to the UIL State Robotics Championship. The team clinched a spot in the UIL Small School division at the CoCo BEST Robotics contest held November 4-5, at Bonham High School, marking the third time in four years that Bonham High School has advanced to the State level. Close to 30 schools of all sizes were in attendance at last weekend’s contest, and teams competed in  the game component, marketing presentation, engineering notebook, booth display, and spirit categories.

This year’s theme is “Made 2 Order,” a contest that requires teams to address real world  problems facing the world in the wake of COVID-19 production shutdowns, post COVID-19 product shortages, and supply chain issues.

Bonham’s team consists of students from various grade-levels, departments, and interests. Over the last few months, these students have worked to build and program a robot capable of completing the challenge.  At the same time, they have had to compile an engineering notebook  documenting the process, a marketing presentation to “sell” their robot, and a tradeshow-style booth to advertise their robot. In addition to placing in the main competition, the team also won the Judges’ Choice Award.

The State contest will be held in Frisco, Texas, on December 2-3, 2022. The team would like to invite all Bonham ISD staff, students and family, as well as all community members to come and support the team as they take it to the next level! Those who attend will not be disappointed. One spectator described the event as similar to “watching a live video game while 4 competitors navigate their way through various obstacle courses while the crowd, band, cheerleaders etc. cheer at the top of their lungs for their teams.”

For more information on the contest or how to sponsor the team, please contact David Story 903-583-5567.

BEST stands for “Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology”.  The organization is currently celebrating its 30th year of competition.