Technology Contests
TCEA members and their students are invited to take part in TCEA’s exciting annual Student Technology Contests, designed to reward and recognize excellence in technology education. The annual contests have become a longstanding TCEA tradition in which hundreds of students and teachers participate every year. Click here for more information.
- Web Design
- Creating an original collection of pages that are designed visually and functionally to communicate information.
- Digital Graphics
- Applying computer technology to create digital artwork.
- Multimedia
- Using technology to integrate multiple types of media, simultaneously, to present or interact with content.
- Digital Audio
- Editing or manipulation of sound in a digital format to create an original composition.
- Desktop Publishing
- The design of a layout to assemble type, graphics, and images to create print media that communicates information.
- Digital Video
- The production of audio and video files stored in a digital format for editing or playback.
- Animation
- The use of technology to create a time sequence or series of graphic images or frames together to give the appearance of continuous movement.
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. The double-elimination arena contest goes eight rounds to determine the winning teams in two divisions.
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.
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 20 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.
