The Alva Robotics's team Technic Gold participated in the Frontier BEST Robotics Competition in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on Dec. 1-2. Thirty-five teams came from Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri to participate.

The team experienced two thrilling, stressful and tiring days that included a marketing presentation, an exhibit presentation, an engineering notebook judging and the actual robotic competition.

At the end of the competition, the 16 members of Technic Gold placed 13th out of the 35 teams competing. Many of the teams they were up against were much larger and had older students with c...