2025 Region II Student Conference 3 April - 4 April 2025 Greensboro-High Point Marriott Airport, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

Registration opening in January 2025.

The deadline to register is February 28, 2025

Non-Refundable Registration Fees

• Student Base Fee: $125
• Faculty Fee: $125

The student registration fee includes hotel room for 3 nights (when staying 4 students to a room) plus conference meals.

We require all cancellations occur by March 26, 2025. If you cancel after this date, there will be a $100.00 cancellation fee. Registration fees are waived for faculty attendees.

Contact

Cassy Dellinger, region2@aiaastudentconference.org

Abstract Submissions are open

Submit an Abstract

All papers submitted to the Student Regional Conferences must follow the AIAA Meeting Paper format.

All Region II papers must be approved by the AIAA Student Branch Faculty Advisor. The student author will verify during their abstract and final paper submission that they have gotten approval from their AIAA Student Branch Faculty Advisor.

• Abstract Deadline: February 3, 2025
• Manuscript Deadline: March 3, 2025

The conference’s three categories—Undergraduate, Graduate, and Undergraduate Team— each have three prizes that are funded by the AIAA Foundation. The prizes are as follows:

Prizes

• First place: $500 and a trip to the 2026 AIAA SciTech Forum in January, for one author.
• Second Place: $300
• Third Place: $250

Region II sponsors additional categories for this student conference. The prizes are as follows:

Freshman/Sophomore Open Topic Competition

• First place: $125
• Second place: $75
• Third place: $50

Outstanding Student Branch Activity

• First place: $200
• Second place: $100
• Third place: $50

AIAA Foundation Categories:

Undergraduate Category
For the undergraduate student category, no more than two student authors may prepare and/or present a paper at any AIAA student competition. Topics submitted may not be the same or a part of any project involving more than two students. Papers prepared jointly by an undergraduate and Master's student will be scored in the Graduate category.

Graduate Category
For the Graduate student category, no more than two student authors may prepare and/or present a paper at any AIAA student competition. Topics submitted may not be the same or a part of any project involving more than two students. Papers prepared jointly by an undergraduate and Master's student will be scored in the Graduate category.

Undergraduate Team Category
The Undergraduate Team paper can have 3 to 10 total student authors (undergraduates only), and one listed graduate student or one listed faculty advisor.

For a complete list of AIAA Foundation category rules please visit the rules document .

Region II Categories:

Outstanding Student Branch Activity
The Outstanding Student Branch Activity category allows AIAA student branches to share the details of their most outstanding activity during the last 12 months. Only one paper should be submitted for each student branch. For this category a branch should submit a 1-page talking-paper and prepare a 10-minute presentation.

• The Outstanding Student Branch Activity category is open to all student members.
• This category requires a one page talking paper.
• The presentation of work will be limited to 10 minutes.

Freshman & Sophomore Open Topic Category
The Freshman & Sophomore Open Topic category provides students an opportunity to experience participating in the paper competition without requiring the submissions to be held to the level of depth of the technical paper competition.
Freshman and Sophomore students are welcome to submit their work in the technical paper competition instead if they feel that their work is better suited for that category.

• The Open Topic category is open only to Freshman and Sophomores (1st and 2nd year students regardless of what the university classification based on credit hours is).
• Paper submissions need to follow the same formatting guidelines as the technical paper categories (Submitting Documents).
• The presentation of work will follow the same guidelines as the technical paper categories .
• No more than two student authors may prepare and/or present a paper in this category.
• Any engineering related topic will be acceptable for this category (including aerospace historical topics).

Agenda Subject to Change

Wednesday, 2 April
   4:00–11:00 PM: Registration and check-in
   6:00–9:00 PM: Welcome Social Activity

Thursday, 3 April
   7:45AM: Opening Announcements
   8:00–8:45AM: Keynote Speaker
   8:45–11:30AM: Morning Student Presentations
   12:00–2:00PM: Luncheon with Guest Speaker
   2:00–5:30PM: Afternoon Student Presentations
   6:00–9:00PM: Social

Friday, 4 April
   8:00–11:30AM: Morning Student Presentations
  1:00–4:30PM: Tours
  5:30-6:30PM: Social Hour
  6:30-9:30PM: Awards Banquet with Guest Speaker
  9:30PM: Winners’ Reception