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1. Rube Goldberg Machine
Today you are an engineer that has discovered a problem that can be solved with a simple (or not so simple) contraption. Your job is to design a machine that will perform a series of complex processes to complete the simple task of your choosing. Imagine you are sitting on the couch and want to turn on the tv without getting up. You reel in your fishing rod which tips a teapot and pours water into a bowl. The bowl fills, tipping a stick which tips a ball into another bowl. The weight of the ball lowers the bowl which lifts up the sheet and tips a cage. The cage drops an object that lands on a lever that releases and hits the “Power” button and the tv turns on. You have accomplished turning on the tv in a completely unnecessary and over-complicated way.
2. Catapult Launch Challenge
You are a Mechanical Engineer hired to create a catapult that will launch an object farther, more accurately, and more precisely than any other existing catapult. You must follow the engineering design process to build a “Catapult” and “Catcher” prototype out of only household objects.
3. Water Park
You are a Civil Engineer hired to design and construct the first local town water park! You must follow the engineering design process to gather sufficient materials, plan out your design, and build a water park with multiple leakproof slides that meet a few key constraints and are constructed out of only materials found lying around your house.
4. Marble Run
You are constructing a Marble Run: a course made of household materials and taped to a wall in a way that will guide a marble through the course using only Inertia. Taping it to a wall will allow for the marble to travel at a continuous downward slope, allowing gravity to propel the marble through the course to the finish.
5. Edible Replica
You are an Architect designing a miniature replica of a famous structure… made ENTIRELY out of EDIBLE objects. You will choose your structure from a list, gather edible materials from your house, plan out your design, then build it! Time to be creative! You can only use what you have in your house and it MUST be EDIBLE! The bigger and more elaborate, the better.
6. Geodesic Dome
You are a Civil Engineer hired to construct a Geodesic Dome. Geodesic Domes are known as the lightest, most efficient means of enclosing space due to its ability to distribute weight throughout its structure. They are used most commonly on playgrounds, for greenhouses, and even for homes. You will get to choose which purpose you want your dome to serve, construct your very own, and test how much weight it can actually hold!
7. Whatever Floats Your Boat
You are a Naval Architect (boat builder) who was given the task of building the world’s smallest, strongest and most creative boat. You will use your knowledge of how buoyancy, density, gravity, and displacement affect floatation to strategically test 3 different boat designs before choosing the best one to use for creating your final boat masterpiece.
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What others say
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1. Rube Goldberg Machine
Today you are an engineer that has discovered a problem that can be solved with a simple (or not so simple) contraption. Your job is to design a machine that will perform a series of complex processes to complete the simple task of your choosing. Imagine you are sitting on the couch and want to turn on the tv without getting up. You reel in your fishing rod which tips a teapot and pours water into a bowl. The bowl fills, tipping a stick which tips a ball into another bowl. The weight of the ball lowers the bowl which lifts up the sheet and tips a cage. The cage drops an object that lands on a lever that releases and hits the “Power” button and the tv turns on. You have accomplished turning on the tv in a completely unnecessary and over-complicated way.
2. Catapult Launch Challenge
You are a Mechanical Engineer hired to create a catapult that will launch an object farther, more accurately, and more precisely than any other existing catapult. You must follow the engineering design process to build a “Catapult” and “Catcher” prototype out of only household objects.
3. Water Park
You are a Civil Engineer hired to design and construct the first local town water park! You must follow the engineering design process to gather sufficient materials, plan out your design, and build a water park with multiple leakproof slides that meet a few key constraints and are constructed out of only materials found lying around your house.
4. Marble Run
You are constructing a Marble Run: a course made of household materials and taped to a wall in a way that will guide a marble through the course using only Inertia. Taping it to a wall will allow for the marble to travel at a continuous downward slope, allowing gravity to propel the marble through the course to the finish.
5. Edible Replica
You are an Architect designing a miniature replica of a famous structure… made ENTIRELY out of EDIBLE objects. You will choose your structure from a list, gather edible materials from your house, plan out your design, then build it! Time to be creative! You can only use what you have in your house and it MUST be EDIBLE! The bigger and more elaborate, the better.
6. Geodesic Dome
You are a Civil Engineer hired to construct a Geodesic Dome. Geodesic Domes are known as the lightest, most efficient means of enclosing space due to its ability to distribute weight throughout its structure. They are used most commonly on playgrounds, for greenhouses, and even for homes. You will get to choose which purpose you want your dome to serve, construct your very own, and test how much weight it can actually hold!
7. Whatever Floats Your Boat
You are a Naval Architect (boat builder) who was given the task of building the world’s smallest, strongest and most creative boat. You will use your knowledge of how buoyancy, density, gravity, and displacement affect floatation to strategically test 3 different boat designs before choosing the best one to use for creating your final boat masterpiece.
