TAPPS hosts an annual speech and academics competition in the spring that provides students with the opportunity to compete in a variety of events:
- Academics:
- Advanced math
- Calculator
- Current events & issues
- Literary criticism
- Mathematics
- Number sense
- Ready writing
- Science
- Social studies
- Spanish
- Spelling Yearbook
- Speech
- Prose
- Poetry
- Original oratory
- Persuasive speaking
- Solo acting
- Duel
- Lincoln-Douglas Debate
- Robotics