Event Information & Trial Events

2026 Event Information

Last updated Feb 7, 2026. Keep checking back for the latest updates.

Room Dimensions:

• West Gym (Tentative 2026 Events: Hovercraft B/C, Scrambler B, Electric Vehicle C, Robot Tour C, Ping Pong Parachute B/C) - 80' wide x 103' long: Ceilings approx. 25’ high

• East Gym (Tentative 2026 Events: Helicopter B/C, Aerial Scramble B/C) - 54' wide x 95' long: Ceilings approx. 20’ high, smooth ceiling

Mission Possible B

• Sand Timer: Do not use any sand that is a respiratory hazard (e.g. blasting sand).

• Eye Protection: Students may use either class B or class C eye protection.

Aerial Scramble (Trial) B/C

• We will be providing the Guillows Skystreak Glider for students.

Information about specific events will be posted here as we approach the competition. Keep checking back for the latest updates!

2026 Trial Events

Alternates or students without a lot of events are highly encouraged to participate in our fun trial events during the competition! Trial events are entirely for fun, and don’t count toward a team’s overall score. However, we do award medals.

Trial event rules can be found in the current year's rules manual. We are running the following trial events this year:

• Aerial Scramble (B & C)
  Teams are given a kit and attempt to construct the longest-flying glider during the event. (Rules Here)

• Protein Modeling (C Only)
  Participants will use computer visualization and online resources to construct a physical model of a de novo designed ideal protein structure. This year's event will focus on DI-II_10 as described in doi: 10.1038/nature1, paper freely available at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3705962.

• Ping Pong Parachute (B & C)
  Prior to the tournament, teams will design, build, and bring up to two bottle rockets to the tournament to launch a ping pong ball attached to a parachute to stay aloft for the greatest amount of time.

• Botany (B & C)
  Participants will demonstrate their knowledge of plant life and general botany principles.

• Fast Facts (B Only)
  Teams will fill in a grid of terms that begin with a given letter to match given science categories. (We will be using the rules from 2024; please email rio.sessions@student.nmt.edu if you need a copy of the Fast Facts rules from that year.)