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In this design challenge, students will be tasked with creating a bouncy ball polymer!

Learn about the growing app design field by designing a new or improved app for smartphones.

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

A great science fair project on solar oven design that helps kids learn about solar power and solar heating.

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 activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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 open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for “something that will improve the school.”

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 challenge, students are tasked with creating a model roller coaster that a marble can travel through.

Science fair project that determines whether windmills can be designed so that birds will not feed on them. Will they discriminate between different patterns?

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.

The objective of this project is to examine the ways in which a passive solar house may contribute to conservation of energy.