2024-04-08T18:24:59-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 272434632 ROCKY MOUNTAIN BEST ROCK 3037408491 1075 So Yukon St Suite LL10 Lakewood CO 80226 Lois Walton Treasurer, Board of Directors 3039412582 2024-04-08 Lois Walton 999009999 1 1 11 0 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X www.rockymountainbest.org X X 92499 X 89242 0 0 3257 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 92499 2060 0 0 8150 7354 1320 45246 64130 28369 134470 -1 162838 X 136471 165823 0 0 700 700 137171 166523 2701 3685 134470 162838 Rocky Mountain BEST provides a forum for youth to develop technical and life skills through a robotics program in which youths participate in teams in Middle and High Schools under the guidance of Teachers and Mentors from their local community to design and build competition robots. Part III Line 28 - The Regional Competition Program hosts an event for approximately 800 high achieving students from 25 teams from 8 Hubs in 6 states. Students participated in a robotics competition and also delivered Engineering Notebooks that were judged online. They were also judged in person with Marketing Presentations and Trade Booths where they were interviewed about their "company and it's product (their robot). Trophies and medalians were given to the top teams in each judged portion of the event. We had more than 100 volunteers helping with this event. 0 35076 Part III, line 29 - The Hub Program provides, at no cost to students, hardware and software components and technical assistance to teachers and schools who choose to participate in the BEST robotics program. We host the local competition event. In 2023 still in recovery from the pandemic, we offered an event with portions online and the robotics competition in person. We had 16 teams competing involving 219 students. 2060 24179 Part III, line 30 - Our third largest program is the Teacher Mentor Institute Program. In this program, we expose the teachers who are newer to the BEST program to techniques that will help them mentor their students to a more successful season. They learn about the software that is given to their teams, learn about all the parts of the BEST program, including a build of a robot, and the writing of an Engineering Notebook. The teachers/mentors receive 3 free days of training, and also can request Continuing Education credits. We were able to offer this program to ten teachers/mentors during 2023 (numbers of teams and thus teachers were still down due the the pandemic). 0 1099 Part III, line 31 - We have two other small programs. The first helps establish new hubs in the state, helping them get on their feet. When we find an organization or people who are interested in creating a hub, we train them in what it takes to run a hub. We help them throughout their first season (and sometimes more). Front Range BEST and Pikes Peak BEST are examples of Hubs we have helped. The second program is an outreach program to let educators, students, and parents know about Rocky Mountain BEST and its programs. During 2023, these programs spent a total of $606 as many of the things we do in these programs were still happening less in person due to recovery from the pandemic. 0 606 60960 Carolyn Bauer President, Board of Directors 26 0 0 0 Michael Orf Vice President, Board of Directors 2 0 0 0 Judith Schlesinger Secretary, Board of Directors 6 0 0 0 Lois Walton Treasurer, Board of Directors 28 0 0 0 Jose Lopez Executive Director, Board of Directors 2 0 0 0 Summer Aateli Director at Large 5 0 0 0 Gwynn Moore Director at Large 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CO Lois Walton 8400 E Princeton Ave Denver CO 802371742 3039412582 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 75575 47984 67388 101282 89242 381471 75575 47984 67388 101282 89242 381471 381471 55 10 8 4 3257 3334 0 0 0 0 0 0 384805 0.99134 0.99847 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Purchased tools for 4 Title I schools to help them participate in our program. $2060 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Events;23793|Operating Expenses;10172|Fundraising;3393|Game;7888^Total;45246^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Rounding difference -$1 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Security Deposit Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Credit Card debt at end of year