Engineering challenges to do at home

You are on an expedition in the Amazon rainforest but you have been separated from your group without a compass.

In order to reach safety, you have to get back to base camp which lies East.

How can you get back to camp?

Can you make a building breathe in order to make it more sustainable?

Can you design a prototype for a new building which encourages natural air flow throughout the structure and takes a more sustainable approach to air conditioning?

Imagine you need to build a bridge so that people can cross a river easily.

– You are in a remote location with only lengths of timber to use.

– You have no rope or materials to fix the timber together.

– The bridge you make must be self-supporting in every way.

London Borough Council have set a brief to design a model prototype of a housing project building.

The building must house up to 50 families and change the traditional notion that housing projects are ugly with function prioritised over aesthetics.

Can you make a strong structure look beautiful?

This fantastic task is based on slowing down the way a marble runs from a high point to a low point.

Can you make a paper plane? Of course you can! But can you make a *great* paper plane?

Can you use cutting edge CAD software to design a product that could solve an everyday problem?

Can you help to design an adventurous maze for them so they can get from 'A to B' in the most exciting way?