Engineering Clubs

TSA - TSA is a nationally recognized organization that allows engineering students the opportunity to showcase their skills in competition. There are local, state, and national events. Please go to http://www.tntsa.org/ for more information. Students who participate in engineering classes at CMS are encouraged to participate in the regional and state (if they qualify) TSA events during the school year. Participation is a part of earning graduation cords as a senior. The dues for TSA will be $30 per year. This will the cover state and national club membership fee.

The 2022-23 state competition dates have yet to be determined.

Click http://central.rcschools.net/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=637063&type=d&pREC_ID=1101774 to go to the official club page.

Central Magnet School participates in the FIRST robotics competitions (www.firstinspires.org). FIRST is a global robotics team competition in which students use math, science and engineering, social skills, creative design along with creative problem solving to achieve an engineering design objective. Building a robot is part of the competition but team members also document, market and promote their team’s design to a panel of judges. This team is like any sports team in that the right people must be selected for their expected contribution to the team effort.

Central Magnet has adopted the team name MAGNETUDE. This is for branding purposes and will be used at all levels of competition. This year we will have 2 teams: FIRST Tech Challenge Team Gold and FIRST Tech Challenge Team Black.

There is no fee to participate in FIRST although fundraising will be done to some degree. Through generous donations from Schneider Electric and Tennessee Valley Authority we are able to offer these robotics programs to our students. We do accept additional donations/sponsorship and that is our primary fundraising. If you are interested in helping our program, please contact Marc Guthrie at [email protected]