North Central Texas Technology Student Association

This site has been established to help provide information for TSA Chapters who are competing in the North Central Texas TSA Contest (Region 10)

2025 CONTEST Cost

$25 Chapter Membership Fee for NCTTSA and $8 per registered student - No cost for advisors.  All fees will be invoiced thru the DLG registration system.


2025 CONTEST DATES - Feb 14 & 15 @ Vanguard High School in Mesquite, TX


Calender 2024-2025

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September 3 Zoom Meeting at 4:15 PM

September   Texas Rulebook launches

October 3--4 Texas TSA Advisor Training in San Antonio, TX

October 7       Zoom Update Meeting - 4:15 PM

November 1 TSA On-Time Affiliation (National) - incur a $250 late fee after this date (Texas policy)

November 4 Changed to Zoom Meet @ 4:30 In Person Meeting - 7 PM @ Vanguard HS, Mesquite, Texas - Contest Planning Session

December 13              Membership registration closes for Texas TSA and regional contest eligibility  - Last day to affiliate 


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January 13   NCT TSA CONTEST Meeting - 7 PM @ Vanguard HS, Mesquite, Texas (MANDATORY)
Contest Registration will open - Pre-Contest Schedule and Event Modifications will be sent out  

February 3 2 PM Registration will close - Contest Schedule will be finalized

February 6          Prompt for On Demand (HS) and Technical Design will be released at 9 AM

February 7            Online Testing – must be completed between 3 pm and 6 pm

Essays on Tech – MS - must be completed between 3 pm and 6 pm

On Demand (HS)  and Technical Design (MS) submission due by 3:30 PM

                                         MEAL count for Feb 15th  is due

Pre-submission for National    events due by 6 PM

February 14 & 15   TSA Regional Contest @ Vanguard High School, Mesquite, TX

February 20 (??)       State Contest Registration Opens

February 22     Regional results must be finalized for submission to Texas TSA

March 6       State Contest Registration Closes

April 3-5       State Contest - Fort Worth Convention Center

June 27- July 1        National TSA Conference - Orlando, Fl






JOIN OUR ADVISOR MAILING LIST - cLICK here  - STUDENT MEMBERS SHOULD NOT JOIN LIST

Join the Texas TSA Mailing List - LINK   
(many districts are blocking Constant Contact - consider using a personal email address - that's what Broussard does)

CONTEST SCHEDULE  - link     (STILL A MAJOR WORK IN PROGRESS)

UPdaTED 1/8/2024       CONTEST REGISTRATION - link

Registration will open on Jan. 13

This will take you to DLG registration system for North Central Texas TSA

STUDENTS NOT ON YOUR OFFICIAL TSA ROSTER WILL NOT SHOW UP IN THE REGISTRATION SYSTEM

Note - If you choose to pay with credit card there is no convenience fee.  That is important for some districts.  Texas TSA and National TSA will charge a convivence fee.  Our region absorbs that cost.

Tutorial - click     HERE   to watch     The video is from last year.  Please not that when looking at State Projects it will no longer show Beginner or Experienced - Plus the numbers and events have all been updated. 


Pre-Contest Handout - LINK   

HS modification NQE Chart - link     1.18.24 sECOND tAB

MS modification nqe chart - link    1.18.24 fIRST tAB

SATUDAY MEAL @ Contest     


Pre-submissions  - STate Projects 

Click HERE for info Only 1 category in both HS and MS - Multimedia & Animation

Info for VEX Teams 


OUR REGION WILL NOT HOST A VEX EVENT

we need judges 

TSA Advisors bringing groups to compete do not sign up - you are already slotted in.


Judging slots will open ASAP


Our TSA Regional Contest is Feb 16 and 17- we are looking for judges. Judges must be adults. We even use college students.


Some things can be comfortably judged from your home during Feb 9th thru the 14th. There are also slots for people to attend in person Friday and Saturday


If you are TSA alumni in the area, we would really love your help. The event will be in Mesquite @ Vanguard High School


Click Image to the left to volunteer and signup.   (Note active yet)


W9 form

LINK   UPDATED 2/22 VERSION

CONTACT info

Ricky Broussard - rbroussard@mesquiteisd.org 


Shyla Vire    svire@wisd.org 

Contest Location

This year's event will be hosted at Vanguard High School - You can go to the Contest Location Page for more info