The St. Mark’s Robotics team completed two days of competition for the Texas Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology (BEST) Robotics Championship at the University of North Texas on Friday & Saturday, November 14 & 15. The boys gave engineering presentations on their robot's design on Friday, and the actual games (78 rounds of four teams at a time) were held on Saturday. This year’s task was to assemble, via remote-controlled robot, a model airplane with interlocking magnetic parts; the only team able to do so on Saturday ended up winning the game competition.

While St. Mark’s games’ scores were not as high as they had been at the local level, the team's engineering design and programming expertise received 2nd place in the prestigious Founders Award, a first for the School in its six years in BEST. The Founders Award is "awarded to the team that makes best use of the engineering process in consideration of offensive and defensive capabilities in machine design and is given in recognition of BEST founders Steve Marum and Ted Mahler." The team's next competition will be in the late winter with Botball, a national autonomous LEGO and ROOMBA robot contest.