Team Registration, Louisiana High School Technology Challenge

Free Louisiana High School Team Registration

The designated Team Coach should click on this link to fill out and email the team registration document. Instructions are provided.

Team registration this year is free due to sponsorship. Observe the strict deadline for team registration. Only registered teams will be able to participate in this state-wide online event; there are no exceptions.

Team Coach Checklist
1. The principal of any Louisiana high school designates a Team Coach to select a team of up to 15 high school students.
2. The Team Coach must be a full-time administrator, teacher, or staff member of the school who has an active school email account.
3. The Team Coach completes the free online registration of the team by the designated deadline.
4. The Team Coach reserves a school computer lab with Internet access for the day of the competition and ensures that participating registered students are excused from classes, just as they would be if they were to participate in a field trip.
5. As Team Coach, please ensure that you can communicate by email from email originating from ulm.edu (the email server used by the University of Louisiana at Monroe). In some cases, in past competitions, email access was blocked by some high schools. Contacting your network administrator can easily remedy this unlikely situation.
6. Check your email regularly.
7. Whenever possible, use email for communication.
8. Upon completion of the Challenge, please complete the online evaluation survey of this event; this should take no more than a few minutes.

For the sake of fairness, the online Technology Challenge has a strict time limit. The Technology Challenge is scheduled during the morning of the day of the Challenge. Competition files may be accessed by 8:00 AM of that day with a completion deadline of 11:59 AM. There is a stiff penalty for late submissions; so, be sure to electronically "upload" your team's files well before the deadline. Complete directions for uploading your team's files will be provided.

Summary
You should know that the most common reported characteristic by previous winning teams of the Technology Challenge was teamwork. Hopefully, your team will focus on this as well.

Every Team Coach will receive confirmation of registration by email. If you, the Team Coach, do NOT receive that email confirmation, call us by phone. In the past, a few high schools blocked nearly all email, even from ulm.edu, the email server used by ULM (University of Louisiana at Monroe).
As Team Coach, you will receive a registration confirmation email message a few days before the Technology Challenge that includes complete instructions, with login information for your team's account, for the Technology Challenge.