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Middle School Competitions

Show off your skills!

All information on this page refers to the Arkansas TSA State Conference only. We strive to provide a competition atmosphere as close to Nationals as possible, but there will always be some variation. For National events, please see the TSA Competitive Events Guide under the "Total TSA" tab in the affiliation portal. You will only have access to that guide after affiliating your chapter.

Choosing Competitions

  1. Visit this website to take a quiz that will help you find a competition you may be interested in.

  2. Write down all of the competitions you're interested in.

  3. Check the chart to the left.

    • If two of your events are in the same "Block," you will have to decide between those two events.

    • If one of your events is in a "Block" and your other events are in a "Time Slot" of the same color (i.e. Essays on Technology and Animatronics), you will have to decide between those two events.

    • If all of your events are in the "Time Slot" column, you may do as many events as you'd like, but ARTSA recommends you do no more than four.

ARTSA Competitive Events Guide

Events At-A-Glance

Team size: The minimum and maximum students per team

TpC: Teams per Chapter that may register for the ARTSA State Competition

Type: Block or Time Slot

Prep: What level of work must be done before the State Competition

Portfolio: Does this event require a documentation portfolio? 

Coming Soon: Links to descriptions and resources

Programming Console

Coding

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Team size: 2

TpC: unlimited

Type: Block

Prep: Low

Portfolio: No

Engineering Sketch

Inventions & Innovations

Team size: 3-6

TpC: unlimited

Type: Slot

Prep: High

Portfolio: Yes

Game Character Creation

STEM Animation

Team size: 1-6

TpC: 3

Type: Slot

Prep: Medium

Portfolio: Yes

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CAD-

Foundations

Team size: 1

TpC: unlimited

Type: Pre-Con

Prep: Low

Portfolio: No

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Leadership Strategies

Team size: 3

TpC: 3

Type: Slot

Prep: Low

Portfolio: No

Computer Games

Video Game Design

Team size: 2-6

TpC: 3

Type: Slot

Prep: High

Portfolio: Yes

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Challenging Tech Issues

Team size: 2

TpC: 4

Type: Slot

Prep: Medium

Portfolio: No

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Technology

Bowl

Team size: 3

TpC: unlimited

Type: Block

Prep: Medium

Portfolio: No

Urban Architecture Model

Dragster

Design

Team size: 1

TpC: unlimited

Type: Block

Prep: High

Portfolio: Yes

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Technology Problem Solving

Team size: 2

TpC: unlimited

Type: Block

Prep: Low

Portfolio: No

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