Competitions & Contests
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 TEEAP 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.
- Brookhaven National Laboratories Programs and Contests
- Creative Crane Competition
- EngineerGirl! Essay Contest
- FIRST Robotics
The FIRST robotics contest looks to inspire and celebrate science, technology, engineering, and math for children aged 6 through 18 using LEGO kits to construct and program robot inventions for younger participants and a larger, broader contest for older students.
- 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
- National Robotics Challenge
- Pennsylvania Technology Student Association
TSA is the only organization dedicated specifically to the study of technology at the K-12 level.
- 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.
- 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.
- WESTEC Student Manufacturing Challenge
A collegiate level student competition in March at the WESTEC Exposition in Los Angeles, CA.
- Winston Solar Challenge
Pennsylvania is a member state of the ITEEA's STEM Center for Teaching & Learning Consortium through partnership with California Univ. of PA, Millersville Univ., PA Dept. of Environmental Protection, the TEEAP and the Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center (DVIRC). Schools across PA have free access to Engineering byDesign™ products. If you are interested in accessing it you need to accept the Licensing & Distribution Agreement and fill out the web form by clicking here. Once your request is received the URL to the PA page will be sent to you.
Thank you to everyone who attended the 2011 TEEAP Conference! We encourage you to consider presenting at next year's conference on November 8-9, 2012. Visit our Conference page for some information concerning the 2011 Conference as well as the form to sign up to present at next year's conference. Information for the 2012 Conference will be available during late June or early July of 2012.
The theme ITEEA's 75th Annual Conference is Improving Technology & Engineering for All Students: A Plan of Action. As ITEEA starts its 75th Anniversary celebration of its past, present, and future, there are guiding principles that will shape our field and the content to be taught. We know that the pace of innovation will continue to be rapid and globally interconnected. The population of individuals who are involved with or affected by technology will be increasingly diverse and multidisciplinary. Social, cultural, political, and economic forces will continue to shape and affect the success of innovation. The presence of technology in our every day lives.
This conference is an opportunity to recognize and honor the accomplishments of our colleagues and best-practice programs. Additionally, it provides professional development and networking opportunities, as well as opportunity to renew old friendships and create new friendships. For more information, click here.