TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION
ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA

Competitions & Competition Sponsors

Looking to give your students the opportunity to learn while being involved in some great technology competitions. Check our list of state and national competitions below? Submit any unlisted competitions to the TEAP-Online Webmaster.

• BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology)
  BEST is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization whose mission is to inspire students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participation in a sports-like, science and engineering-based robotics competition.

• BNL Mag-Lev Contest
   

• Building Big Competition
   

• Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards
  The Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program challenges students to use creativity and imagination along with science, technology, and mechanical ability to invent or modify a tool.

• Creative Crane Competition
   

• FIRST LEGO League
  Extends the FIRST robotics contest concept of inspiring and celebrating science and technology to children aged 9 through 14 using LEGO kits to construct and program robot inventions.
   

• Future City
  The mission of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present their vision of a city of the future.

• Future Scientists & Engineers of America
  FSEA is a national non profit organization which provides the structure, project material, documentation and workshop training necessary to establish after school technology clubs in K-12 schools.

• Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
  The "World Cup and World Series" of science competitions.

• Internet Science and Technology Fair
  Students collaborate with Internet resources while developing home pages that help them understand the impact of technology.

• Junior Solar Sprint Contest

• Manufacturing Technology Essay Contest
  An Illinois seventh or eighth grade student can win a top prize of a $250 savings bond for an essay describing the technology of the manufacturing process of any common object.

• Motor Trend 2001 Design Contest
  The vision of NIMA is to help create a system of high school kart-racing teams that allow students to feel pride themselves, feel pride in their schools and communities, and apply their skills in a competitive sport.
   

• National Technology Achievement Award Program
   

• NEAS+ (National Engineering Aptitude Search)
  An academic self assessment.

• NEDC (National Engineering Design Challenge)
  Students design, build and demonstrate a working solution to a social need in this high school engineering based competition.

• Pennsylvania Technology Student Association
  TSA is the only organization dedicated specifically to the study of technology at the K-12 level.

• Robotic Technology and Engineering Challenge
  Students from middle school through college get to compete, learn and demonstrate their knowledge of engineering, robotics and technology. Sponsored by Robotics International of SME.

• Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
  A fun approach to pull away from conventional problem-solving and encourage imagination and intuitive thought.

• Science Olympiad
  Challenges students to become involved and participate in several levels of engineering type activities.

• Staples Invention Quest
  Staples Invention Quest™ is a contest that invites inventors to submit ideas for easy office products. Winners receive a cash prize and get the chance to have their ideas produced and sold in Staples® stores. What a great idea!

• TEAMS (Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics and Science)
  A unique, challenging academic program and competition.

• Think Quest/Think Quest Junior
  ThinkQuest is an international website-building competition, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation. Teams of students and teachers are challenged to build websites on educational topics.

• US First Robotics
  FIRST designs accessible, innovative programs to build self-confidence, knowledge and life skills while motivating young people to pursue opportunities in science, technology and engineering.

• WESTEC Student Manufacturing Challenge
  A collegiate level student competition in March at the WESTEC Exposition in Los Angeles, CA.

• West Point Bicentennial Engineering Design Contest
   

• Winston Solar Challenge