Dear Teachers,  (NEW DATE and LOCATION)

We are excited you are considering having your students participate in the 2023 Tulsa Engineering Challenge (TECh) on Friday, March 3rd at the Tulsa Community College Aviation Center at 112 W. Beechcraft Drive, Tulsa, OK 74132.  It is a fun hands-on event for grades 4 – 12.  There are eleven (11) events that require per-preparation. Pre-registration can be done on the tulsaengineer.org web site.   There are an additional three (3) events that are “walk-in” – your students can decide that day to participate.  Doors open at 8:30 AM on March 3rd.  The competitions will conclude around 11:30 AM.  Teachers are invited to a walk-thru on Thursday evening, March 2nd between 4:00 PM and 5:30 PM. They may pick up their registration packets.  Deadline for registration is Feb. 24, 2023.

Typically teachers register teams for one event to several.  They select events that compliment their curriculum and ones that they think their students would have fun doing. Several teachers give their students options and encourage the student to work on their own outside of class. Others do it as part of their class and have run-offs prior to TECH.  Bus transportation reimbursement is available from the American Society of Civil Engineers – Oklahoma Chapter.  Go to https://www.okasce.org/sponsorship.html   Fill in the on-line form under Sponsorship.

Exhibitors in the past have varied from colleges that offer engineering degrees to schools that offer welding training as well as companies that design, create and build. 

Click here for Rules for all the events

Deadline for registration of # of teams is Feb. 24, 2023.  Please remember that pre-registered events are limited to four (4) entries per division per school except for the Wacky Wonder Works which is limited to two (2) entries per division per school.  It is recommended that the bigger participation schools stage run-off competitions on their home campus to select the “varsity teams” to compete at TECh if they have more than the four potential entries.

The events that require pre-registration are:  Click on the link to ‘Rules for all the events’ above to see the rules for each.

• Chemical Switch
• Digital Poster
• Electric Motor
• Extreme Engineering Challenge
• Paper Airplane Distance
• Paper Airplane Duration
• Ping-Pong Ball Launcher
• Robot
• Rubber Band Powered Vehicle
• Toothpick Bridge
• Wacky Wonder Works

Walk-in events are:

• Aluminum Boats
• Mini Math
• Academic Olympiad

Activities students can observe while wandering around:

• Chemistry / Physics Show hosted by the Society of Women Engineers
• Exhibitor tables

Below is a table of the # of teams that you can register. Divisions are as follows:  Lower Division is Grades 4^th – 6^th; Middle Division is Grades 7^th – 8^th; and Upper Division is Grades 9^th – 12^th.  A school is limited to four teams per competition accept the Wacky Wonder Works which is limited for two teams. Schools are encouraged to have run-offs before the day of the event.

We ask that one teacher at your school site register all the classes that participate in one division.   Prizes are given to the students (1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place) as well as to the teacher’s classroom. Prizes are $50, $40 and $25 for the Paper Airplanes,  Academic Olympiad, Electric Motor and Extreme Engineering Competitions; $20 per hour for the Mini-Math and Aluminum Boat; and $100, $75 and $50 for the remaining competitions.

INDIVIDUAL OR TEAM EVENTS:

TECh is intended to help you give a fun exciting experience to your students that demonstrate that engineering is creative, collaborative, flexible and lucrative.

Please contact Jennifer Butler with any questions you have at  tulsatechchallenge@gmail.com or call 918-381-6825.