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middle school students show off their engineering design challenge product - a bottle rocket truck

Bottle Rocket Truck (Learning Undefeated)

Students will engage in a STEM challenge to design a truck powered by a chemical reaction that will have to stop within a specific drop-off zone. Teams will be challenged with various payloads to earn bonus points if they can stop in the drop-off zone.

Finding My Dance (Learning Undefeated)

Students will engage in a STEM challenge to build a workable instrument in limited time to create a rhythm to communicate choreography.

students demonstrating maintaining a balance

Maintaining a Balance (Learning Undefeated)

Students will put on their engineering hats to assist in maintaining species populations within an ecosystem.

student demonstrating care package launch

Care Package Launch (Learning Undefeated)

Students will engage in a STEM challenge to design a catapult that can land on two different targets. In this design challenge, students will explore forces and motion in the operation of the simple machine known as a lever

Circuits (Learning Undefeated)

Students will engage in an electricity and circuitry STEM challenge to design a Wigglebot toy that can produce light and sound while still being able to wiggle.

students demonstrating goldilocks activity

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Learning Undefeated)

Students will engage in a STEM challenge to build a chair for the Bear family’s guest in 25 minutes.

elementary students doing jack and the beanstalk engineering design challenge

Jack and the Beanstalk (Learning Undefeated)

Students will engage in a STEM challenge to build the tallest structure in 25 minutes that can hold a toy figure (Jack) for one minute.

What If There Were No Bees? (Learning Undefeated)

Students will engage in a STEM challenge to build an artificial pollinator in 25 minutes.

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Learning Undefeated)

Students engage in a STEM engineering challenge to build a home that can withstand a big bad wolf’s sneeze.

Making Medicine

Students will perform protein purification using column chromatography to gain a greater understanding of the biomanufacturing process of going from a cell to a protein to a product.

Two girls holding their successful titration

The Sweet Spot

Students practice the process of titration as they test drink samples to ensure the citric acid concentrations meet quality control standards.

Operation Polar Eye: Think Like a Drone

In this activity, students will use computational thinking to write a code sequence for a drone to survey an arctic map. This activity is based on the work done by Northrop Grumman in Operation Polar Eye.