SOLAR

SPRINT
Senior Solar Sprint (SSS)
Senior Solar Sprint (SSS) is a Solar Sprint competition for TSA high school students
in grades 9-12. High school students apply scientific understanding, creativity,
experimentation, and teamwork to design, build, and race a model solar vehicle that
carries a payload; documentation of the process is required. Students must register on
Cvent to participate and begin the SSS journey.
Solar Sprint
Junior Solar Sprint (JSS)
Junior Solar Sprint (JSS) is a Solar Sprint competition administered by the Technology
Student Association (TSA) through a grant awarded by the Army Educational Outreach
Program (AEOP). The competition offers resources that empower teachers, mentors, and
other community members to engage middle school students in designing, building,
and racing model solar cars. Students develop teamwork and problem-solving abilities,
investigate environmental issues, and gain hands-on STEM skills as they construct the
fastest, most interesting, and best crafted vehicle possible.
THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATORS
› S TART YOUR STEM JOURNEY!
› GET ON A PATH TOWARD FULFILLING STUDIES AND CAREERS!
› ENHANCE YOUR CLASSROOM!
AEOP (Army Educational Outreach Program) offers students of all ages and teachers opportunities for meaningful, hands-on
STEM experiences, alongside our country’s foremost scientists and engineers.

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ENRICHMENT APPRENTICESHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS
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› Camp Invention, a week-long summer STEM adventure. Experience summer and year-round apprenticeships & fellowships
in university or Department of Defense laboratories across the
 ains in the Education of Mathematics and Science (GEMS),
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country, working with scientists and engineers to gain firsthand
a summer STEM camp at Army research labs and centers.
research experience.
› Unite, a high school summer experience at colleges and
universities.

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 esearch Experiences for STEM Educators and Teachers
(RESET), a unique research opportunity taking place online and
at Army labs and centers.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
A variety of opportunities that enable students to pursue STEM
education through fellowships, grants and tuition-for-service
program.

COMPETITIONS
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EDUCATORS AND VOLUNTEERS
› Junior Solar Sprint, a team-based solar-vehicle competition. Create STEM opportunities for students and make a difference in
their lives through mentoring, judging, advocating and more.
› eCYBERMISSION, a web-based STEM research competition.

 unior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS),

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a professional level competition to compete for scholarships
and recognition.

For more information please visit

usaeop.com or dodstem.us.
About the Junior Solar Sprint competition
Junior Solar Sprint (JSS) is a competition administered by the Technology Student
Association (TSA) through a grant awarded by the Army Educational Outreach
Program (AEOP). The competition offers resources that empower teachers,
mentors, and other community members to engage middle and high school
students in designing, building, and racing model solar cars. Students develop
teamwork and problem-solving abilities, investigate environmental issues, and
gain hands-on STEM skills as they construct the fastest, most interesting, and best
crafted vehicle possible. An online resource center is available to educators. JSS is
an official TSA competition.

If you are a TSA middle school or high school chapter advisor at a Title 1 school, or
an elementary school teacher interested in bringing JSS Jumpstart to fifth and
sixth graders, your school may be able to receive up to two free solar car kits.
Each kit meets the minimum specifications for JSS and contains a solar panel,
electric motor, and a pair of small alligator clips for easy hookup.

Please contact Sue King at sking@tsaweb.org for questions.