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In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot move in a pattern related to the sound and rhythm of music.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create their own tic-tac-toe grid out of building blocks.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Find out whether a longer airplane will fly farther or a wider paper airplane.