Around the starting of the school year I joined TSA, where students from around the nation compete in various technology oriented projects. The competitions start at regionals, and individuals who place there make way to state level competition and then finally enter nationals. Well like always I joined the as many competitions as I could, and also like always started work the last minute..literally. For regionals I had to compete in Medical Technology, Biotechnology & Agriculture, and Promotional Design and phone calls from my group members and the school adviser started to roll in. It was Sunday afternoon and the event was to take place on that Thursday. The next five or so days were probably the busiest days of my life. The first two days I sat up all night researching and designing presentations for our Medical Technology competition. Our topic was Obesity, and I decided to throw together a few nice boards in photoshop. Designing the boards turned out to be the easier part of the project, finding someone that did oversize printing with understandable rates became the problem. Fedex Kinkos were charging around $50 per board and almost every other place I drove to wouldn’t print over 11×17.  Well in the end I finally found a small place in the corner of downtown that got the job done.  The next day and a half I spent throwing together another design for promotional graphics, and I really want to say thanks to my partner for doing most of the work for Agriculture & Biotechnology.

Even with our last minute efforts all the projects placed.  Medical technology won first, while the other two hit 3rd place, allowing me to go to state competitions for all three.

Here are the medical technology boards I threw together, most likely I am going to redesign and redo the entire project for state competitions.