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WELCOME!

Alabama Consortium for Technology in Education
ACTE Region 4

The 2020 ACTE Region 4 Fair is scheduled for
Friday, February 7, 2020
Location: 
Jacksonville State University Coliseum​
775 Park Avenue NW
Jacksonville, AL  36265

Registration DEADLINE: Friday, January 17, 2020 (no exceptions)
STATE ACTE FAIR DATES:  Friday and Saturday, April 17 and 18, 2020
Locations for State ACTE Fair: Auburn University Montgomery ​

INFO & CHANGES TO NOTE

Requirements (Including Changes for 2020)!

• • ACTE has kept the same acronym letters; however, its name has officially changed to Alabama Consortium for Technology in Education.
  • ACTE's east central region is now region 4, which covers Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Randolph, and Talladega counties. 
  • The date for this year's state fair is April 17-18, 2020.
  • Students MUST participate in the regional fair and place 1st or 2nd to attend the state fair.
  • Students can only enter TWO projects for competition.
  • Each school can only have 6 students who take the IT test.
  • You may have up to 2 people on a team but teams and individuals will not compete against each other within each grade grouping. Clarification: The Team Programming Challenge and Group Robotics can still have 4 people but all other teams can only have 2 people. 
  • If a team places at regional, both members of the team must pay for and attend the state-level competition in order to compete.
  • A student may only be a team member of one group per category.
  • Projects cannot be moved from group to individual.
  • Students who are in a group will compete at the oldest group partner's level.
  • Regardless of the length of the project, the maximum judge time is 15 minutes; therefore, judges may only view a portion of the actual project.
  • Judges will use a category rubric as a guideline for exemplary characteristics of projects in this category.
  • Students must complete a portfolio (formerly called a notebook) and include a certificate of completion of watching the orientation video on the state home page. 
    

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email address: acte@jsu.edu