Updated: June 25, 2021

This year MESA Utah will be hosting a virtual competition in lieu of our usual State MESA Competition and MESA Events at Physics Day.

MESA Day Trophy Winners for 2021

• 🏆 Taylorsville High School 🏆
• 🏆 Bonneville Junior High School 🏆

MESA Day Trophy Points Earned – High School:

• Taylorsville High – 16 Points
• Cottonwood High – 15 Points
• Skyline High – 10 Points
• Granger High – 6 Points
• West High – 5.5 Points
• Weber High – 5 Points

MESA Day Trophy Points Earned – Elementary/Middle School:

• Bonneville Junior – 26 Points
• Olympus Junior – 6 Points
• Bennion Junior – 4 Points
• Wasatch Junior – 3 Points
• Northwest Middle – 2 Points
• Matheson Junior – 1 Points

MESA Utah Virtual Competition Events

May – Utah Engineering Design Competition

• Technical Presentation & Interview – High School:
  • 1st Skyline High
  • 2nd Taylorsville High
  • 3rd Cottonwood High
• Design Poster – High School:
  • 1st Taylorsville High
  • 2nd Skyline High
  • 3rd Cottonwood High
• Prototype Pitch – High School:
  • 1st Taylorsville High
  • 2nd Skyline High
  • 3rd Cottonwood High
• Design Brief – High School:
  • 1st Skyline High
  • 2nd Taylorsville High
  • 3rd Cottonwood High
• Overall Winners – High School:
  • 1st Skyline High (Qualification for NEDC)
  • 2nd Taylorsville High
  • 3rd Cottonwood High
• Competition Rules

Note: There was insufficient junior high participation to declare any winners.

May 12 – Mousetrap Car Virtual Competition (Timed Race in Basketball Key)

• High School Winners:
  • Granger High
  • Cottonwood High
  • Cottonwood High
• Elementary/Junior High Winners:
  • Bonneville Junior High
  • Bonneville Junior High
  • Wasatch Junior High
• Mousetrap Car Rules

February 1 – Straw Tower (weight-bearing)

• Rules
• YouTube Playlist for Straw Tower
• High School Winning Teams:
  • 1st West High
  • 2nd Taylorsville High
  • 3rd Cottonwood High
• Elementary & Junior High Winning Teams:
  • 1st Bonneville Jr
  • 2nd Bonneville Jr
  • 3rd Matheson Jr

December 4 – Cleopatra’s Barge

• Rules
• YouTube Playlist for Cleopatra’s Barge
• High School Winning Teams:
  • 1st Weber High
  • 2nd Weber High
  • 3rd Cottonwood High
• Elementary & Junior High Winning Teams:
  • 1st Bonneville Jr
  • 2nd Bonneville Jr
  • 3rd Bonneville Jr

Congratulations to the clubs who received Arduino supplies.  These materials were provided by a STEM Action Center organization grant to MESA Utah.

In November, MESA Advisors were invited to fill out a request for Arduino supplies.  Supplies are being shared among the clubs that submitted requests in November.  MESA Utah used the grant to purchase:

• 60 Uctronics Arduino Robot Car Kits (K0070)
• 35 Arduino Super Starter Kits (Sunfounder Version 2.0 or Version 3.0)
• 35 Elegoo Uno R3 boards (Arduino Compatible boards)
• 20 Sunfounder Ulitmate Sensor Kits (for use with Arduino)

These kits will be shared among MESA clubs thoughout Utah.

The kits can be used for:

• Following the instructions in the kits to build and code beginning Arduino projects.
• Compete in the MESA Utah Arduino Based Solutions for Humans Competition in April.  This is the qualification event for the MESA USA Competition in Arizona this June.
• Compete in the MESA Utah Arduino Car Race at Lagoon in May.

Thank you for your participation in MESA this year.  We look forward to seeing your Arduino creations.

This video was just added to the USU Physics Day page:

Preparing for the MESA State and National Competitions

See Also:

• Mouse Trap Competition
• Arduino Clean Air Solutions Competition
• USU Physics Day