Recent or planned competitions.

PEER Seismic Design Competition
organized by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Center (PEER) and the PEER Student Leadership Council (SLC)

The objective of this Seismic Design Competition is to provide Civil and Structural Engineering students an opportunity to do hands on project and gain practical experience by designing and fabricating a cost effective frame structure, which will withstand sever earthquake simulation.

http://peer.berkeley.edu/students/seismic.html

Earthquake Engineering: Learning with LEGO
organized by the UC Irvine - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCI Center for Educational Partnerships and UCI FOCUS!

The Earthquake Engineering: Learning with LEGOs event involves more than 700 middle and high school students, vying to build LEGO structures able to withstand the simulated ground motion of a major earthquake.

http://www.eng.uci.edu/news_events/current/?page=2004_04_12