Join us for the inaugural launch of Mini Baja 2024 - registration is now open!
What is Mini Baja?
Get mentoring support and top tier networking at SAE’s premier Commercial Vehicle event in addition to experienced industry mentors all less than a day’s drive from Baja SAE Michigan (~4 hours)! Participate in this scaled-down R/C version of Baja for no additional cost beyond your entry fee to the conference.
Event Highlights
- Design and Fabrication: Each team will create their Mini Baja vehicle on a digital platform, employing various AM techniques to produce the parts necessary for assembly.
- Scale Prototype: The culmination of these efforts is a meticulously crafted scale prototype.
- Testing and Competition: Prototypes will be put to the test in person at SAE International’s COMVEC™ Conference in September 2024.
- Challenging Course: Vehicles must navigate a demanding course featuring diverse terrain surfaces, elevation changes, jumps, drop-offs, and various other obstacles designed to test durability and performance.
- NEW Addition! - Booth Space: Each team will be offered the opportunity to staff a university booth for the duration of the entire COMVEC event (September 10-11). This booth can be utilized to showcase your teams' amazing University Programs participation - whether its for Mini Baja, Baja SAE, or any other programs within our portfolio. This is not a requirement for participation in Mini Baja, however this is a great opportunity to highlight yourself and your team in front of hundreds of COMVEC industry professionals!
Competition Details
- Team Registration Fee: $0.00 (however, COMVEC student registration is required - see below)
- COMVEC Student Admission Rate: $175.00 per individual - must register by 8/16
- Registration Closing: August 16, 2024
- Rules: Rules can be downloaded from Series Resources within the Mini Baja folder.
Steps to Register
Action Required by 8/16
- Register your team at https://www.sae.org/attend/student-events/mini-baja-2024.
- Complete 2 Minute Team Member Survey: https://sae.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bBAlbAwy098qT8a
- Have each team member of Mini Baja register for COMVEC at the student rate here: https://comvec.sae.org/registration
- Submit COMVEC registration proof to document submission area of Bajasae.net by 8/16.
Other Notes:
Rules Q&A Use: Mini Baja will NOT be utilizing the Rules Q&A feature of Bajasae.net. Please submit rules questions to [email protected].
Document Deadlines Clarification
The following documents are required for your competition. However, please understand that you only need a minimum of two team members. If you have a 2 person team, you do not need to submit for COMVEC Proof of Registration - Student 3 & 4.
- COMVEC Proof of Registration - Student 1
- COMVEC Proof of Registration - Student 2
- COMVEC Proof of Registration - Student 3 (if needed)
- COMVEC Proof of Registration - Student 4 (if needed)
- Mini Baja Cost Report (this is NOT a Cost Module submission, just a small PDF report)
- Design Review Slide Deck
Technical Drawing
Note: While that seems like a lot, there are only 3 competition documents the other remaining four are simply submitting proof of your COMVEC registration. COMVEC registration documents are due by August 16th, and the rest of the documents are due by August 26th. All submissions are setup on Bajasae.net with the same submission process as standard Baja SAE competitions. Please note that on the Deadlines tab of Bajasae.net currently is reflecting an error that displays all National document submissions for the standard Baja SAE series when you select Mini Baja from the competition drop down list. We are working to fix this issue with our developers. Please understand that the ONLY submissions required for Mini Baja are the ones explicitly labeled as Mini Baja in the Competition column. We hope to have this issue resolved soon.
Questions?
Reach out to us at [email protected].
