That's awesome that your school has competitions for that. I'm currently in CAD1 at my school and we use KeyCreator and Chief Architect but I think the best part of the class so far was the final where we had to finish a drawing from scratch in a certain amount of time. I think a competition against other schools would be even better but I don't see it happening.
Oh well at least next year Illinois will be doing a statewide high school fishing tournament.
Good luck at State and post up some of your projects. I'll see if I can get one or two of mine up.
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