📄️ Hot Rod CO2 Car Competition
Hot Rod Competition (HRC) provides technology students with another opportunity to use their knowledge and skills in problem solving and the fun and excitement of racing competition. The goal of HRC is to encourage students to design and build realistic looking one-fourth mile hot rod car models. The project has been carefully planned to allow students to create realistic scale models of dragsters, funny cars, pro-stock cars and trucks and still have a chance to win races. The vehicle should be built of several parts or sub-assemblies rather than carved out or 3D printed as a single unit.
📄️ CO2 Research Racer
The Research Racer Competition CO2 Cars are cars used as miniature racing cars which are propelled by a carbon dioxide cartridge, pierced to start the release of the gas, and which race on a typically 60 feet (18 metres) track. They are frequently used to demonstrate mechanical principles such as mass, force, acceleration, and aerodynamics. They are formed by shaping a single piece of wood or plastic into the body of the car.
📄️ RC Vehicle
Competitors will build their own Electric RC car either from their own design or from a kit. No store bought, already assembled RC cars will be permitted. The course will be a road race. The purpose of the RC race is to showcase the learning activities of students building radio-controlled cars and the components that make up this type of transportation system. All RC Vehicles must be electric/battery powered.
📄️ Drone Competition
Texas TSA Power and Electric has developed NEW smart electrical meters for the city! These smart meters can be read wirelessly by a drone and then transmitted back to headquarters to determine usage amounts. We need your drone teams to collect this data from across our city and transmit it back to Texas TSA Power and Electric’s headquarters as quickly as possible!
📄️ Catapult/Trebuchet
A trebucchet is a type of catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile. It was a common powerful siege engine until the advent of gunpowder.
📄️ On-Site Computer Skills Contest
Participating schools must supply all necessary software, hardware, paper, etc. All judging will be done on the contestant's computer screen. Events such as animationss and presentations will be demonstrated to a judge.
📄️ Graphic Solutions
This competition will test the student's ability to solve a given problem with minimum supplies. The only items that may be taken into the contest area are:
📄️ Promotional Video
Applying leadership and 21st century skills, participants showcase video skills, tools, and processes to communicate, inform, and promote a topic, idea, subject, or concept through a film produced on-site at the Texas TSA Conference. Required criteria, such as props and a line of dialogue, make the competition more challenging and will be revealed at the event orientation meeting. Teams will be given 24 hours to complete the solution to the challenge.
📄️ Social Media Marketing
Applying leadership and 21st century skills, participants showcase social media marketing skills, tools, and processes to communicate, inform, and promote an event on social media and produced on-site at the Texas TSA Conference. Required criteria, such as hashtags, content and a theme, make the competition more challenging and will be revealed at the event orientation meeting. Teams will be given 24 hours to complete the solution to the challenge.