1. Michelle Bunn, M.A.
Associate Director
Project Lead The Way
SDSU College of Engineering

2. Competitions Chevron Design Challenge
Chevron Design Challenge: Winning Strategies
IvenTeam
TEAMS
Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge
VEX Robotics/FIRST Robotics
MESA Days
Walk on Water
Solar Cup
Additional STEM Competitions
HOSA
Additional BMS Competitions & Opportunities

3. Chevron Design Challenge – PLTW High Schools
Teams are given the opportunity to:
Create an original design that meets the design specifications given the morning of the competition
Collaborate with their teammates and work together to meet deadlines to submit sketches, assembly drawings, parts drawings and an exploded view with Parts List for judging
Give a short presentation of their design to a panel of professional engineers and college students

5. Competition Day Schedule
7:30 – 8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast.
8:00 – 8:15 Procedural Briefing and Distribution of the Design Brief.
8:15 – 8:45 Initial Brainstorming and Preparation Period.
8:45 – ~9:00 The competition director responds to questions.
9:00 – 11:00 Brainstorming, Design Sketching, and Initial Inventor Modeling.
11:00 – 11:30 Continued Model Entry
11:30 – 12:00 Lunch and Coaching.
12:00 – 2:00 Continued Model Entry and Presentation Preparation.
2:00 – 3:00 Completion of the Design Presentation.
3:00 – 3:15 Break Time.
3:15 – ~4:30 Design Presentations.
4:30 – 4:45 Break while Judges Collect and Tabulate Scores
4:45 – 5:00 Presentation of Awards

6. 2011 State Finals held at Santana HS in San Diego

7. 2012 State Finals held at Lincoln HS in
San Diego

8. Scoring Initial Design Sketches (15 points) – Neatness: 0-3 points
Clarity: 0-12 points
Parts Drawings (15 points) – THREE of the parts drawings must be clearly dimensioned using correct dimensioning conventions.
Complete drawing set submitted: 0-4 points
All required and appropriate views shown: 0-4 points
Dimensioning standards followed: 0-7 points
Assembly Drawing (5 points) –
Assembly drawing submitted with all parts correctly constrained 0-5 points
Meets Quantitative Design constraints (5 points) –
Meets Quantitative Design Constraints 0-5 points
Exploded View and Parts List (15 points) –
All parts shown: 0-5 points
Parts list: points
Balloons & Exploded View: 0-5 points 

10. Presentation Scoring Design Concept (20 points) –
Originality: points
Meets Qualitative Design Constraints: 0-5 points
Manufacturability: points
Marketability points
Final Presentation (25 points) – Up to six minutes using a PowerPoint presentation.  
Presentation (Speaking) Skills: 0-6 points
Quality of Slides: points
Content: points
Clarity: points
Neat Professional Appearance 0-3 points

11. Business Casual NO shorts and sandals.
Dress Code
Business Casual
School uniform
Blouse and skirt for the girls
Polo and khakis for the boys
NO shorts and sandals.
Students do not need to wear a suit and tie, but are more than welcome to if they would like.

13. Competition Dates REGIONAL COMPETITIONS
April 5: Sacramento (Granite Bay HS)
April 12: San Jose/East Bay (Amador HS)
April 26: Bakersfield (Bakersfield Community College)
Los Angeles (Redondo HS)
San Diego (La Costa Canyon HS)
STATE FINALS COMPETITION
May 24: San Diego (Scripps Ranch High School)

14. Have not entered the contest before.
Eligibility
3 members per team.
Limited to students who are currently enrolled in IED/ID OR who have completed IED/ID.
Have not entered the contest before.

16. Prizes are awarded to each of the 3 team members!

17. Prizes for Regional Competitions include:
1st Place Winners — IPad
2nd Place Winners — $100 Amazon gift card
3rd Place Winners — $75 Amazon gift card
4th Place Winners — $50 Amazon gift card
5th Place Winners — $25 Amazon gift card
*1st, 2nd, & 3rd Place Teams are also awarded a $1,000 Travel Stipend to attend Finals*

18. Prizes for Finals Competition include:
1st Place Winners — Laptop
2nd Place Winners — $300 Amazon gift card
3rd Place Winners — $200 Amazon gift card
4th Place Winners — $100 Amazon gift card
5th Place Winners — $50 Amazon gift card

20. Registration is open! Space is limited!
Please register only ONE team per high school.
You can also me ONE additional team to be put on the WAIT LIST. Teams will be randomly selected to fill any open spots 2 weeks prior to the Regionals.
Register at: pltwca.net/go/IED2014
Please go to PLTWCa.org for rules and additional information.

21. Chevron Design Challenge: Winning Strategies
1. Meet all Deadlines – You can’t win if items are turned in late.
2. Save Often & Safely on Desktop and USB – Every year, multiple teams lose all their work.
3. Bring a Team – You don’t need 3 quarterbacks; multiple skills are needed.
4. Practice – Use previous design briefs.
5. Keep it Simple – Don’t get hung up on a complex part; change it and move on!

22. Chevron Design Challenge: Winning Strategies
5. Design it so it Works – Engineers do not reward you for crazy creative ideas that won’t work.
6. Be Professional and Neat – These can influence the judges more than the scoring indicates.
7. Work as a Team – Everyone always working in parallel.
8. Presentations are Critical – Practice! Don’t read, use bullets, emphasize your design (not the design brief), use 2 presenters if 1 is weak. Practice before presenting.
9. Animations Must Work – Learn how to embed videos that will work when moved to a new computer.

23. Additional STEM-Related Competitions
Invent Technological Solutions to Real-World Problems
Gives HS students an opportunity to cultivate their creativity and experience invention
InvenTeams include: HS students, teachers, and mentors
Can receive grants up to $10,000 each to invent technological solutions to real-world problems
For more information:
2015 InvenTeam Application Timeline (Grants for the academic year)
Initial application deadline: February 28, 2014
Excite Award recipient notification: March 4, 2014
EurekaFest 2014: June 19-21, 2014
Final application deadline: September 5, 2014
2015 InvenTeams announced: October 15, 2014

24. Additional STEM-Related Competitions
TEAMS
1-day competition
MS/HS students
Hands-on STEM enrichment in imagining creative, practical solutions to a real-world challenge
This year’s theme is “Engineering Tomorrow’s Cities”
Scenarios are based on the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges
Teams of 4-8 students work together to answer multiple choice and essay questions
Compete for local, state, and national recognition
Teams can compete anytime during February 10 – March 22.
PLTW schools receive a 30% registration discount by using code PLTW2014
Find out more at:

25. Additional STEM-Related Competitions
Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge
For K-12th grade students
Students must follow 7-step invention process
Including: identifying a problem, conducting research, sketching, building a prototype, testing, refining, and marketing their product
Prizes include:
a patent application filed by a law firm
camp scholarships
book sets
Additional items
Deadline for submitting inventions: April 11, 2014
For more information including challenge details, guidelines, and scoring information, visit

26. Additional STEM-Related Competitions
VEX Robotics Competitions
Visit
Operated by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation (REC)
Information on competitions across different programs
VEX IQ
VEX Robotics Competition (VRC)
VEX U
Check out the REC Foundation Online Challenges
Gives students a chance to show off their work, win prizes, and get a chance to compete at the VEX Robotics Competition World Championship
Attend one of the VEX Robotics presentations at this conference to learn more about grant opportunities!

27. First Lego League FIRST Robotics
STEM National Video Game Competition: challenge America's best and brightest, including children, to enter the competition with ideas that can be designed into web-executable, browser-based, STEM-related computer and video games in three age-based categories The 2013 Extreme Redesign contest: The Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge 2013
More competitions found at:

28. Additional STEM-Related Competitions
MESA Days
MESA Days
MESA Schools Program high school & middle school students compete in various project-based competitions
Walk on Water Competition
Students are assigned the task of designing, constructing, and piloting water shoes across a swimming pool.
Solar Cup
Students build and race solar-powered boats at Lake Skinner, in Temecula Valley

29. Walk on Water Competition
Solar Cup Challenge

30. Additional STEM-Related Competitions
Two national video game competitions
Game Changers
STEM NATIONAL VIDEO GAME COMPETITION
Cyber-Security Competition
2014 Extreme Redesign: Rise to the 3D Printing Challenge
“Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge”
Intel Competitions
What If? Live Student Design Challenge

31. Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA)
Start a HOSA chapter
Create a Parent Advisory Board
Invite community partners to help your students

32. California HOSA Competitive Events
Health Science Events:
Dental Spelling
Dental Terminology
Knowledge: Human Growth & Development
Knowledge: Medical Law and Ethics
Knowledge: Pathophysiology
Knowledge: Pharmacology
Knowledge: Nutrition
Medical Math
Medical Reading
Medical Spelling
Medical Terminology
Emergency Preparedness Events:
CERT Skills
CPR/First Aid
Teamwork Events:
Biomedical Debate
Career Health Display
Community Awareness
Creative Problem Solving
Forensic Medicine
Health Education
HOSA Bowl
Public Service Announcement
Leadership Events:
Extemporaneous Health Poster
Extemporaneous Speaking
Extemporaneous Writing
Healthy Lifestyle
Job Seeking Skills
Medical Photography
Prepared Speaking
Researched Persuasive Speaking
Health Professions Events:
Clinical Nursing
Dental Science
Medical Assisting
Nursing Assisting
Sports Medicine
 Recognition Events:
Barbara James Community Service Award
Cal-HOSA Honor Roll
Health Care Issues Exam
HOSA Happenings: Multimedia Chapter Communication Event
National HOSA Week
National Recognition Program
National Service Project
Outstanding HOSA Chapter

33. Click on the PDF and it will show you what to study, how it will be scored, guidelines of the test and breakdown of the test.

34. Medical Career Night for the Middle Schools with Career Speakers and students demonstrating their skills

35. Strategies for Success
Success for Skills Tests:
C.E.R.T. at the fire house
Clinical Nursing taught by Nurses
CPR is taught by Firefighters and EMT’s
Sport Medicine trainers teach taping
Success for NON-Skills Tests:
Study on your own from textbooks
PDF’s have practice questions without answers
Our officers created practice test for our members

36. Practice
Watch Videos

37. Give Students Opportunities for Public Speaking

38. Other Research Opportunities, Summer Programs and Competitions:
RSI SIMR NIH Simons HSHSP City of Hope Berkeley Sharp UCSF arthritis summer internship SSP Cal Tech Jackson Lab Stony Brook TASP Intel Cosmos Lead America

39. Are there any additional competitions you know about?