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.
2024-25 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!
Shuksan MS, 2024 1st Place
Event Resources
EVENT EXAMPLES
Click on the links to the right to view past entries for this event
Event Deadlines
January 23, 2025 - updated 10/28/24
Upload URL and pdf file
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 a video of a working solar sprint car traveling the full 20 meters. Members also submit the Project Log (pdf) from their portfolio.
April 2025
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 a currently affiliated TSA chapter
Be registered (by their TSA advisor) for competition by December 20, 2024 ($30)
Compete in the January 23, 2025 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 10, 2025
State Conference registration week February 24-28, 2025 (see state conference page for details)
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.
