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Energy Madness
Duration: Six 50-minute sessions
Grade Levels: 4-8
Design a machine that can deliver a remote control to an immobile friend.
Grade Levels: 4-8
Duration: Six 50-minute sessions
Objectives:
- Use their knowledge of energy transfer to complete a design challenge with given criteria and constraints.
- Compare and evaluate solutions based on how well they meet the criteria and constraints.
- Iterate design solutions based on their observations of failure points and combine the best characteristics from multiple machines into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success.
- Describe how elements of the design process were used to achieve an optimal design solution.
The Tech Challenge
This resource was developed to prepare students for the 2017 Tech Challenge. Each year The Tech Challenge invites teams of students in Grades 4-12 to use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem.
Learn about this year's Tech Challenge.
The Tech Academies
This activity was developed in partnership with educators from The Tech Academies Fellowship program. Tech Academy Fellows learn to be leaders of STEM education while designing and testing resources to be shared with other educators.