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Welcome to a New School Year

Welcome to a new school year with Georgia TSA. In this pack you will find important information to kick start your year. Please print the TSA calendar and post it somewhere in your room. We have a jammed packed calendar with exciting opportunities I do not want you to miss. For the most up to date information please visit the Georgia TSA home page at www.gatsa.org. Be an active chapter and send your chapter activities so we can include them in the News section of the Georgia TSA website. Submit all articles with pictures to [email protected]

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Message from the 25-26 GaTSA President
Message from the GaTSA Board President

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TSA Affiliation Requires On-line Affiliation

The National TSA on-line system opens August 15th to accept your chapter affiliation!

AFFILIATION IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL PAYMENT IS PROCESSED BY NATIONAL TSA.

Payment to National TSA may be made with a credit card or an approved/signed Purchase Order followed by a check.

  • All Georgia Advisors receiving Extended Day Grant Supplement must have completed chapter registration prior to October 1, 2025 to satisfy the requirements of your Program of Work.
    • Affiliate early so that you can receive access to your new “Total TSA” tab on the National Website Account, which includes the current Competitive Events Guide and membership benefits like membership cards.
    • You can add additional members to your roster at any time during the year. After October 1, however, only affiliated members may register for the Fall Leadership Conference or the Annual State Conference.
  • National TSA Affiliation
    • NEW CHAPTER -> Instructions
    • EXISTING CHAPTER -> Instructions
      • If you are re-affiliating - IMPORTANT: PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THE SCHOOL NAME FROM ITS CURRENT LISTING.
    • When you affiliate you will receive access to the Total TSA Package which includes:
      • Membership Materials: The Membership Materials section provides guidelines for promoting, running and maintaining your chapter. It also includes chapter organization tips, promotional and marketing ideas, and descriptions of TSA's awards and recognitions.
      • Competitive Events: TSA offers its members challenging technology and leadership competitions. TSA's competitive events are reviewed and revised every two years by the Competition Regulations Committee (CRC), a standing group of technology educators with hands-on classroom experience. The Competitive Events portion of TOTAL TSA presents guidelines for all national TSA conference competitions, as well as a comprehensive view of each event's connection to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) standards. Additionally, leadership skills and career choices are featured for each event. Relevant for local state and national competitions, the competitive events materials provide an excellent motivational tool for curricular activities in the classroom.
      • Lesson Plan Examples: TSA is beginning to produce lesson plans involving TSA Competitive Events as the hands on student centered activities.
  • TSA HAS UNIFIED MEMBERSHIP DUES. This means no one may be a member of TSA, or participate in TSA activities and conferences, without affiliating at the local, state and national level. Be sure to include dues for advisors and alumni. All students in your school who are taking or have taken a Technology Education course are eligible for membership.
  • AFFILIATION PLAN OPTIONS: TSA offers three curriculum-integrated membership programs. Each chapter chooses the program that works best for them.
    • Red Chapter Affiliation Program (Red CAP) - $170.00
      • Affiliates ten (10) members by paying a flat fee (additional members, over 10, may be added during the year for the individual fee of $17 each).
    • White Chapter Affiliation Program (White CAP) - $17 each
      • A chapter affiliates eleven or more members by paying a per-member fee for state and national dues.
    • Blue Chapter Affiliation Program (Blue CAP) - $700.00
      • PLEASE FOLLOW THE GEORGIA DOE RULES* REGARDING MEMBERSHIP REPORTING TO THE NATIONAL TSA AFFILIATION SITE FOR BLUE CAP CHAPTERS.
      • A chapter affiliates an unlimited number of members in a Middle School or High School Engineering Pathway Program for one flat fee (typically cost effective when there are more than 41 or more chapter members). This option is popular in chapters where students rotate through a STEM class for a portion of the year, like a Middle School, to enable all students to be members, and or large High School Chapters.
      • *GA DOE RULE for BLUE CAP: When you upload your roster, you list all students that are enrolled in the Engineering Pathway Classes offered at your school during the entire year, including all students in multi-teacher programs. In addition you also count the members of TSA that are not currently enrolled in those classes.
  • The chapter affiliation program can grow and evolve as your chapter grows. If your chapter originally selected the Red CAP and grows beyond those 10 members you become White CAP chapters automatically when they affiliate eleven or more members. Red CAP or White CAP chapters may convert to Blue CAP at any time. It’s recommended that a chapter with more than 41 members should convert to Blue CAP and never have to pay for additional members.
  • REVIVING A DORMANT CHAPTER: Often there are personnel changes at schools that cause the TSA Chapter at that school to disband or simply shut down due to a lack of a chapter sponsor or engineering & technology education program. In cases where there has been a lapse in membership, and the school wants to affiliate once again, the chapter sponsor should contact the National TSA Office and ask for Maria Raza, The National TSA representative in charge of membership services. Her email is: [email protected]. Give her the new information and ask to be set up in the National TSA Management System.
    • A username and password will be issued by National TSA for Manage My Chapter access on the National website, to the new advisor for that school.Contact the State Executive Director for assistance for GA TSA Event Management System Access (Different from National Access) - [email protected].
    • There is no additional fee for re-affiliating other than the normal annual affiliation dues.
  • The absolute member affiliation deadline is October 13th for Fall Leadership participants and February 9th for a member to be able to register for the State Conference. The deadlines reflect the necessary turn-around time between adding a new name to your roster and it being posted on the National TSA Database, which is used to populate our GA TSA Event Management System. If you have any problems or questions, please contact Steve Price, State Executive Director at 678-551-0840 or [email protected].
  • CHAPTERS OWING OUTSTANDING DEBTS. If a chapter has a delinquent debt from previous events/conferences, that chapter will not be able to register for future events/conferences until the outstanding debt has been paid or arrangements with GA TSA have been made and approved by the GA TSA Board of Directors. Accounts over 90 days past due will receive an email reminder notice. Over 120 days a copy will be sent to the principal.

Does your school qualify for the National TSA Champion Fund? The Champion Fund is a one-time Opportunity for Free TSA Red CAP Membership

  • The Technology Student Association (TSA) currently has funds available for eligible schools to pay for Red CAP TSA membership (ten students and one advisor) for one year. The Champion Fund is made available through donations from individuals, schools, and businesses to provide membership funds to chapters that qualify. See the Champion Fund Section for further information

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The Georgia Technology Student Association is a charter affiliate of National TSA and dedicated to middle and high school students enrolled or previously enrolled or that have an interest in engineering & technology education pathway and STEM Education programs. Georgia Technology Student Association (TSA) chapters prepare students to be successful inventors, designers, creative problem solvers, responsible citizens and leaders who will influence and build the future.

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