Student Contests
Programming Contest
Some of the brightest students from all across Texas compete each year in the largest pre-collegiate qualifying state computer programming competition in the country at TCEA’s State High School Programming Contest held each year in April.
Teams earn the right to compete in the state contest by virtue of their placing or scores in the TCEA area contests, which are held in various parts of Texas in mid-February. At the state contest, the students compete for 10 places in two high school divisions. Competing teams attempt to solve 18 problems in three difficulty categories within a two-hour time limit by writing their own computer programs. Click here for more information.
Dates:
Area Contest Dates: February 15-23, 2009
State: April 18, 2009
Robotics Contest
TCEA provides its members with the opportunity to explore the impact of robotics. Participating students from elementary and secondary schools design, collaborate, plan, redesign, construct, create, assemble, invent, reinvent, write, present, and compete to see who has developed the smartest robot. The contests vary based on strategies that involve speed, accuracy, sensing objects, and light. A programmable robot is limited only to the imagination of its inventor.
Students not only have the opportunity to compete in a prescribed problem contest, there is also an open-ended invention contest. Students use marketing, programming, writing, constructing, and presentation skills to find a solution for a problem of their choice. Click here for more information.
Dates:
Area: Monday, Feb. 2 - Tuesday, March 31, 2009
State: May 16, 2009
Digital Graphics and Media Contests
TCEA's Digital Graphics and Media Contest is opportunity for students to show off their best digital graphics, videos, web sites, and interactive media and to learn how to make it even better.
CONTEST THEME:
The Green Movement / Going Green
Interactive Media (Grades 9-12)
The integration of digital media including combinations of electronic text, graphics, moving images, and sound, into a structured digital computerized environment that allows people to interact with the data for educational purposes.
Web Design (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
The Integration of digital media including combinations of electronic text, graphics, moving images, and sound, into a structured online environment using HTML and other web programming languages.
Video and Motion (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
Videos taken from either an analog (tape) or digital (DVD/hard drive/flash memory) source and imported into a computer for editing, enhancement, correction, and production.
Graphic Design (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
Any original combination of still images, text, photographs, illustrations combined to form a cohesive, entertaining, and engaging composition that pertains directly to the contest theme.
Project submission will open Feb. 16, 2009 and close March 2, 2009.
Judging will end March 20 and winners will be notified in April 2009.