Junior Solar Sprint
Description
Participants apply STEM concepts, creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving skills as they design, construct, and race a solar-powered model car.
Learn more about JSS, then register on Cvent to begin your JSS journey.
2023-24 Highlights
A student-designed attachment device must be used to connect to the fishing line guidewire!
Cars must be able to attach to the wire without disconnecting the wire!
Whatcom MS, 2023 1st Place
Event Resources
EVENT EXAMPLES
Click on the links to the right to view past entries for this event
Event Deadlines
January 11, 2024
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 photos of car as a pdf file.
Students ALSO upload a video of testing the car to any platform, and then list the URL.
March 2023
Students will submit and set up portfolio, display and car, and sign up for a testing time.
All cars will be run twice, as long as they can connect to the wire correctly.
Both times will be recorded.
Students must come to the start line when their team is called. If they do not, they will be disqualified.
Teams may have one 5 minute "repair time" if necessary between their two runs.
Top 12 cars (by fastest time) will race a 3rd time for semifinal times, and teams will be interviewed.
NOTE: All cars must be able to connect to the guidewire without disconnecting the wire! Otherwise, they DO NOT run! Connection devices must be student-designed, NOT purchased eyehooks.
Washington TSA Rules
To compete, students must belong to an affiliated TSA chapter, register for competition by December 15, 2023, and pay the $30 competition fee. Participants must also meet the January 11 event deadlines (see above) to “qualify” for the Washington TSA State Conference in March.
To compete at the WTSA State Conference, students must have been registered in December, met the Jan. 11 deadline, and then register in February for the State Conference ($420/$500 per student package price (4 or 2 students per room)).
At the state level, 5 teams per chapter may compete.
Additional Information
Event Coordinator: Kristen Schlegel, Kristen.Schlegel@bellinghamschools.org
Event Manager:
To purchase kits, you can either search “Pitsco Ray Catcher” on Amazon, and come up with an individual kit, a kit for 10 students, and/or a teacher guide book, or you can purchase the same thing from Pitsco using the links below.