History
While preparing for Engineering Day at the Texas Instruments facility in Sherman, Texas, engineers Ted Mahler and Steve Marum, along with several students, watched a video featuring the work Woodie Flowers was doing with his students at MIT, and wondered why they could not extend this idea to high school students.
The BEST competition began in 1993 in Sherman, Texas with one small hub featuring 14 schools (one from San Antonio) and 221 students.
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