2025-04-12T17:46:49-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 272434632 ROCKY MOUNTAIN BEST ROCK 3037408491 1075 So Yukon St Suite LL10 Lakewood CO 80226 Lois Walton Treasurer, Board of Directors 3039412582 2025-04-12 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X www.rockymountainbest.org X X 110246 X 102563 0 0 7683 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 110246 3603 0 0 4175 7585 1296 51956 68615 41631 162838 336 204805 X 165823 212586 0 0 700 700 166523 213286 3685 8481 162838 204805 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 500 high achieving students from 28 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 medallions were given to the top teams in each judged portion of the event. We had more than 150 volunteers helping with this event. 3603 32432 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 2024 we offered an event with portions online and the robotics competition in person. We had 22 teams competing involving 302 students. 0 30458 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 eleven teachers/mentors during 2024. 0 732 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 2024, these programs spent a total of $283. 0 283 63905 Carolyn Bauer President, Board of Directors 30 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 Gwynn Moore Director at Large 22 0 0 0 Laurie Harrison Director at Large 6 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 47984 67388 101282 89242 102563 408459 47984 67388 101282 89242 102563 408459 408459 10 8 4 3257 7683 10962 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 419421 0 0.97386 0.99134 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Helped two schools attending Regional Championship from our Hub with travel expenses. $3,603 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Events;36286|Operating Expenses;8145|Fundraising;2563|Game;4962^Total;51956^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Our balance sheet in 2023 contained a line item for Gift Cards (under our cash accounts) that was listed as $-253 but should have been $+103 which is a difference of $336. This difference was found late in 2024, but we have not filed an amendment for 2023. An amendment to 2023 would have had the following for lines 22 - 27 column B (which would become lines 22-27 column A for 2024). Line 22 - $166,159 Line 23 - $0 Line 24 - $700 Line 25 - $166,859 Line 26 - $3,685 Line 27 - $163,174 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Security Deposit - $700 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Credit Card Debt at end of year - $8,481