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

The first competition will be Cleopatra’s Barge which must be complete by December 4, 2020. Due dates for the other competitions are listed below. We’ll post rules and information as they become available.

We will be hosting the Utah Engineering Design Competition virtually. The Utah rules will follow the MESA USA rules with adaptations for virtual competition.

Cleopatra’s Barge Rules
Submit Cleopatra’s Barge Video Clips and Scores

MESA Utah Virtual Competition Events and Due Dates

• December 4 – Cleopatra’s Barge
  • Rules
  • Intro Video
  • Submit
• January 29 – Straw Tower (weight-bearing)
• February 26 – Tangram Race
• March 26 – Marble Rollercoaster (constructed using poster board)
• April 2 – Engineering Design Competition Part 1 – Design Brief
• April 9 – Engineering Design Competition Part 2 – Poster
• April 23 – Engineering Design Competition Part 3 – Prototype Pitch PPT & Demo Video Clip
• April 30 – Mousetrap Car Race (15 feet timed race)
• TBD (Early May) – Engineering Design Competition Part 4 – Technical Presentation & Interview via Zoom
• May 8 – Zoom Meeting – Engineering Design Competition

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