Engineering Competitions

[calbiterol]

Anybody aware of any good (hands-on) engineering competitions out there for midwestern US high school students?

[Anjruu]

http://www.aia-aerospace.org/aianews/features/team_america/. This one is a model rockery challenge, if you build rockets at all. Its a bit far advanced this year, but you could still do it if you wanted. It is team-based.

[calbiterol]

I would love to do that, and I think I'd have a lot of fun with it, but...

 

"Only the first 750 teams that submit a completed application, including payment, postmarked no later than November 30, 2005, will be allowed to compete in the 2006 contest."

 

... Maybe next year.

[Anjruu]

Oh, right, sorry. It is fun though. You should do it next year. Actually, no don't. Because then there's more competition... .

[Helix]

the ISEF. I'm entering, it should be pretty fun (though I'm entering in biology).

 

http://www.sciserv.org/isef/ of course you'd have to enter for next year, as this year's competition starts in a week.

[cessna7686]

Science Olympiad is a pretty big competition. The only midwest state it isn't offered in is Arkansas. I have never competed in it but my roommate competed in high school and really liked it. He even goes back to his H.S. to help their current team.

http://www.soinc.org/contact/links.htm

That's the website to look at your states Science Olympiad.

[Helix]

I've done SO for two years and it was really fun -- mostly because our school was so low-key about it, it was more fun science than competitive science. No, the two don't go together.