Looking for a fun, low-prep STEM challenge your students will love? This printable hands-on computer science activity is part of a 30-challenge STEM series designed to help students explore science, engineering, problem-solving, and critical thinking through meaningful design tasks. In this challenge, students plan, build, test, and improve their ideas using simple materials and the engineering design process.

This STEM activity encourages creativity, perseverance, collaboration, and real-world application while keeping prep simple for teachers. It is a great fit for STEM class, science centers, makerspace, enrichment, fast finishers, sub plans, early finishers, homeschool, or family STEM fun.

If you are looking for an engaging foundational computer science activity with binary code, this challenge gets students thinking, creating, and revising, this resource is an easy way to bring hands-on STEM learning into your classroom.