Children's Stories
Description
Participants create an illustrated children's story of high artistic, instructional, and social value. The narrative may be written in prose or poetry and take the form of a fable, adventure story, or other structure. The physical story book should be of high quality and designed to reflect the theme for the year (see below). The story must have a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) focus.
2025-26 Theme
Students develop and produce a non-fiction, die-cut board book.
Lake Washington HS, Team 3, 2026 1st Place State, 1st Place National
Inglemoor HS, 2026 2nd Place National
Event Resources
EVENT EXAMPLES
Click on the links to the right to view past entries for this event!
Event Deadlines
January 21, 2027
Students will need their Participant ID number, and password, from their advisor. Only the team captain will be able to upload the file.
Students submit story outline, design sketches, storyboard, materials list and a minimum of 3 completed pages as a multi-page pdf file. Students who do not submit ALL of these elements will not be scored.
April 2027
Students will submit their book and portfolio on Wednesday evening of the conference.
Semifinalist list will be posted on Friday afternoon. Semifinalists will present book to the judges, explain their design process, and answer interview questions.
Washington TSA Rules
To compete, students must:
Belong to a currently affiliated TSA chapter
Be registered (by their TSA advisor) for competition by December 18, 2026 ($35)
Compete in the January 21, 2027 virtual competition (see individual event pages for details)
Be selected as a top competitor in their event(s) and invited to participate at State
Number of competitors is dependent on specific event
Qualifying competitor lists will be published by February 7, 2027
State Conference registration week February 22-26, 2027 (see state conference page for details)
At the state level, 3 teams (may be a team of 1) per chapter may compete.
