Updated: March 4, 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. We’ll post rules and information as they become available.

The fourth competition will be the Tangram Race. Registration is due by March 12. Score submissions are due by April 5.

• Competition Rules
• Tangram Template
• Demo Puzzle Packet
• Demo Solution Sheet
• Demo Score Sheet
• Registration Form Due Due by March 12
• Score Submission Form Due by April 5

The first of the Engineering Design Competition (Design Brief) events is due on April 19. You can find information about this competition at https://mesausa.org/national-competition/

What are Tangrams?

Upcoming MESA Utah Virtual Competition Events

• Fri March 12 – Tangram Race Registration
• Mon April 5 – Tangram Race Score Submission
• Mon April 19 – Engineering Design Competition Part 1 – Design Brief
• Mon April 26 – Engineering Design Competition Part 2 – Poster
• Sat May 8 – Engineering Design Competition Part 3 – Prototype Pitch PPT & Demo
  (Zoom Meeting Competition)
• Wed May 12 – Mousetrap Car Race (15 feet timed race)
• TBD (Mid May) – Engineering Design Competition Part 4 – Technical Presentation & Interview via Zoom

[Calendar updated on 3/4/2021]

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

Completed MESA Utah Virtual Competition Events

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