Design Challenges

STEM activities for curious families and classrooms

Technovation Families' free design challenges explore a range of science, technology, and engineering topics through fun, hands-on activities that promote creativity and problem-solving to find unique solutions.

Learn from the scientists and engineers who are creating the technologies of tomorrow, and use what you learn to build your own invention!

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All Design Challenges

Build a Self Driving Car Game

Build a Self Driving Car Game

Build a game board that acts as a system of circuits to alert and navigate around obstacles

Design a Robotic Arm

Design a Robotic Arm

Design a robotic arm that can move a marble, a straw, and a coin from the table into a cup without using your hands.

Build a Robotic Face

Build a Robotic Face

Build a robotic face that can make facial expressions using simple machines.

Make a Mechanical Theater

Make a Mechanical Theater

Create a theater show using characters made from simple machines.

Build a Light Dispersal System

Build a Light Dispersal System

Create a way to spread light inside a house to illuminate a picture

Build a Wind Powered Turbine

Build a Wind Powered Turbine

Engineer a machine that converts wind power into mechanical energy

Build a Water Collection System

Build a Water Collection System

Engineer a structure that collects the most amount of rain water

Build a Talking Truck

Build a Talking Truck

Build a truck that "talks" to alert when there is a problem.

Design a Set of Mechanical Genes

Design a Set of Mechanical Genes

Design a set of mechanical genes that control the way something grows.

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