Life Vest Challenge
Students explore how engineers develop and improve equipment that helps save lives in water emergencies.
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Students explore how engineers develop and improve equipment that helps save lives in water emergencies.
View DetailsStudents explore how devices -- such as the periscope -- have evolved over time to meet societal needs.
View DetailsStudents explore how engineers have solved societal problems to move goods, materials, and people using conveyor systems.
View DetailsStudents explore nanotechnology through a measurement and temperature exercise involving liquid crystals.
View DetailsStudents explore how engineers have increased the effectiveness and efficiency of planting seeds.
View DetailsStudents explore how the folding of materials is sometimes critical to the functionality or shipment of a product.
View DetailsStudents explore how engineers have developed rocketships over the years, and learn about the principals of rocketry.
View DetailsStudents work in teams to design and build a functional "pen" out of everyday materials that can deliver washable liquid watercolor (ink) to a sheet of paper in a controlled manner.
View DetailsStudents explore how engineers redesigned or re-engineered the traffic signal over time to enhance its functionality.
View DetailsStudents explore how equipment developed by engineers allows us to "see" at the nanoscale.
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