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Design-a-Challenge

Design a challenge for youth grades 5 through 12 that introduces and reinforces the scientific process with a hands-on project geared to solve a real-world problem. Your entry should suggest a real-world problem and its likely solutions that could be built as prototypes by students as their entry into the Tech Challenge competition.

Project Power to the People!
Demonstrate how multiple sources of alternative energy could be used in a home, especially in a Third-World setting.
Project Killer asteroid deflector on the moon
To save the Earth from a catastrophic asteroid hit, design a robotically-steerable, high-energy deflector-beam gun to be deployed on the moon, having the ability to nudge any problem asteroid off-course well before it becomes a threat, and with the entire moon installation to be assembled by robots (humans can help back on Earth).
Project Water Fall
The concept of my project is to create a small creative coloreful water foutin.
Project Balloon Bot Challenge
Using the long stretchy 'animal' balloons construct a gripper/positioner that is capable of grabbing balloons and connecting them together while contending with the "fat sticky fingers" problem. That is to say that grabbers are atom sized or larger. Any atoms one might try to pick up would be difficult to acquire and perhaps even more difficult to release.
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Project Rescue Trapped Miners: The Mobile Technologies Challenge
A next-generation mobile device will collect and transmit live-saving information related to miners who are trapped in underground mines.
Project Avalanche life saver
Create an invention to save the life of someone caught in an avalanche.
Project survival in cardboard
How can people survive using cheap materials to build and live?
Project Solar powered filterless water filter
We will design a water purification system that uses no filters, but ionizes the pollutants in water and pulls them to a polarized metal plate.
Project How to remove nuclear waste
This project designed to assist in finding ways to remove toxic waste from power plants.
Project GoGreen Washing Machine Challenge
how can we stop using too much electric!
Project Lift 6 kilograms using only a fan.
Being able to lift a lot of weight effortlessly.
Project The lift
An extremely basic idea where the rotation of one object causes the rotation of another part of the same object without needing gears.
Project Habitat 2019
Design elements of the NASA lunar habitat and vehicles
Project Mousetrap Mines
Students compete to remove mousetrap 'land mines' and learn something about a real life problem.
Project Designing the skyscraper of the future.
You a designing the sky scraper of the future...but you don't have much material.
Project Saving Jack and Jill.
Save Jack and Jill from that terrible fate by making a machine to carry the pail of water for them.
Project Find under what you cant reach
find under the mess
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