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Engineering challenges to do at home

Try our digital engineering activities to test out your problem-solving and design skills.

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Escape the Amazon

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?

Find out more about this challenge

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Buildings that breathe

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?

Learn more

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Can you cross the 'River Da Vinci'?

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.

Find out more about this challenge

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Strength vs Beauty

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?

Give it a go

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Gone in 60 seconds

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

Try the activity!

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Paper-clip pilot

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

Find out more about this challenge

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Create with CAD

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

Try the activity

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HEXBUG Adventures

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

Give it a go!

  • ESCAPE THE AMAZON

  • BUILDINGS THAT BREATHE

  • CAN YOU CROSS THE 'RIVER DA VINCI'?

  • STRENGTH VS BEAUTY

  • GONE IN 60 SECONDS

  • PAPER-CLIP PILOT

  • CREATE WITH CAD

  • HEXBUG ADVENTURES

 

News — 15 January 2021

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