Me (+my team) have won 3rd place for a certain category at my state TSA conference in 2016 which was when I was in 8th grade. Is this even worth mentioning? Is it acceptable to include this for my future app?
Generally anything before grade 9 is considered too old to be relevant. In theory, you have gone on to bigger and better things since then.
Coincidently, my team won 3rd place for our state this year, and I as an individual won second place on a certain category (my middle school got placed 5th overall in our state). Sucks to hear that anything before high school won’t be taken into account.
Hopefully early wins like those will give you the confidence to compete at a higher level in HS!
you can’t include it in the list of ECs but you can bring it up in an essay especially if you continue it at high school Colleges like to see focus so if you want to bring up how you started earlier, it would be fine. Also you can list it on the app, colleges may ignore it or they may actually look at it, it’s not illegal or anything. 