Welcome to Fresno Unified’s 13th Annual Middle School Tournament of Technology!
March 21, 2020 at Ahwahnee Middle School
Last year, over 300 Students, 177 Teams, led by more than 20 Tech Coaches, representing 14 Middle Schools, competing in 15 Tech Competitions, focused on 4 main categories: Robotics, Video Production, Coding, and Design, for ONE action packed day…
The goal of the competition is to engage students with a variety of innovative technologies to help develop collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity skills.
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Students prepare for months for this competition while developing their expertise as 3D Designers, Video Producers, Game Developers, Graphic Designers, and Robotics Engineers. All 16 events are STEM focused and help provide skills necessary for success in the 21st century.
This year the CoderGirlz clubs participated in a Scratch coding competition. The number of schools establishing coding clubs is growing so we expect that coding events will expand and attract more and more attention. We plan to incorporate Minecraft into this year's exhibition!
CTE, together with IT offered new CTE Enrichment courses during the Expanded Learning Summer Program in 2017. The world of Career Technical Education (CTE) has a broad spectrum of industry sectors. Coding, Robotics and Video Production are all foundational skills that directly connect to many career opportunities within multiple industry sectors. For example, robotics is a foundational experience for students who may want to pursue study engineering, computer science, manufacturing or transportation, to name a few.
The intent of the CTE Middle School Enrichment is to provide (or continue to provide) students with opportunities to learn foundational skills and experience guest speakers and industry site visits that relate to Robotics, Coding & Video Production.
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Interested in Future Judging?
We will be accepting volunteers to help judge next year's Tournament events and as usual you will receive breakfast, lunch and best of all, the current year's Tournament of Technology T-shirt! Please stay posted!
The criteria for being a judge is simple:
Be willing to judge one of the Tournament events online, or show up to judge at our Live Event to support our students and witness their excitement and competitive spirit
Be prepared to be amazed at what our middle school students can accomplish in the areas of video, robotics, 3D Design and more
Be willing to work collaboratively in judging groups of 2 or 3 to score one of the Tournament events
Interested? Email: Onnastasia.Salinas@fresnounified.org or Kurt.Madden@fresnounified.org
or register below:
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Being a "techie" is not a requirement!
Although the students use a LOT of technology to compete, judging the events only makes you look tech savvy!
Judging Types:
Events:
- Robotics (Battle Bot, Robo Rally, Robot C Programming, Search & Rescue)
- Design (3D Printed Car Race, 3D Printed Bridge Strength, 3D Useful Objects, Website Design, Minecraft)
- Video (Advertisement, Blockbuster, Documentary, Public Service Announcement)
- Coding (App Development, Minecraft Code Builder Exhibition event)
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