In a competition of more than 60 teams and seven states, the Wichita Homeschool Student Team won first place.

The competition was the Texas BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) annual meet. The Wichita team won for its design of a robot. Texas BEST students to build remote-controlled robots from a kit of random parts.

Sponsors at the event, held Nov. 21-22, included the Boeing Co., Texas A &M University and Texas Instruments.