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State Conference

Utah Valley Convention Center

220 W Center St, Provo, UT 84601

Monday, March 17: Middle School Conference
Tuesday, March 18: High School Conference

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Late fee: add $5.00 per person


1. Please Check the “Competition Updates” page on the National Website.

2. Most of the competitions have a Tiered system of judging. Tier 1 sections will be judged first to determine who will go on to the Tier 2 section of judging and so forth.

3. As always make sure your students have the ‘Go/No-Go” items that are listed on all of the rubrics. If those items are missing they will be disqualified.

4. Here is the .pdf from the National website on the General Rules for High School competitions. General Rules.pdf

5. Here is the .pdf from the National website on Competition Tips for Students. Competition Tips.pdf

1. For all Structural Engineering and Flight competitions: These competitions will use pre-built entries only. There will be no building on site.

2. Middle School:

  • SOME competitions have tiered judging, others do not. For competitions with tiered judging, the participants may or may not be notified about their progress through the preliminary tiers. It depends on the competition. Semifinalists will be notified, if there is a distinct semifinalist round (see schedule). Please read the official guidelines for your competitions very carefully
  • Flight (MS): All teams should come to the conference with a pre-built plane, as described in the Competitive Event Guide. The event will not include building a plane on-site.
  • Unless otherwise specified, each competition will have 5 semifinalist at the State Conference.
  • Dragster (MS): 8 semifinalist
  • Junior Solar Sprint (MS): 8 semifinalist
  • Tech Bowl (MS): 6 semifinalist
  • Tech Design (MS): The design problem will be emailed to advisors on Monday, March 13. The students will turn in their designs at the time and place indicated on the schedule on the middle school conference day, March 14th.

3. High School:

  • SOME competitions have tiered judging, others do not. For competitions with tiered judging, the participants may or may not be notified about their progress through the preliminary tiers. It depends on the competition. Semifinalists will be notified, if there is a distinct semifinalist round (see schedule). Please read the official guidelines for your competitions very carefully
  • Structural Design and Engineering (HS):  All teams should come to the conference with a pre-built structure, as described in the Competitive Event Guide.  The event will not include building a structure on-site. It will not be necessary to bring a toolbox to the competition..
  • Unless otherwise specified, tiered competitions will have a maximum of 10 entries progress through the preliminary tiers and a maximum of 5 semifinalists.
  • Dragster Design (HS): All track-safe cars will participate in the qualifying races. The top 8 will then progress to Tier 2 and the semifinalist round.
  • Senior Solar Sprint (HS): 8 semifinalists
  • Technology Bowl (HS): 6 semifinalists
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