Engineering challenges to do at home
Try our digital engineering activities to test out your problem-solving and design skills.
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?
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?
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.
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?
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.
Paper-clip pilot
Can you make a paper plane? Of course you can! But can you make a *great* paper plane?
Create with CAD
Can you use cutting edge CAD software to design a product that could solve an everyday problem?
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?
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