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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Deploy a Satellite
Ready for a challenge? This site contains a challenge for students to build a satellite with a 6-inch square body that can deploy its own solar wings and antennae, and can fit inside a 9-inch diameter tube. Also, found on the site is a...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Lightweight Airplane Wing
A challenge for students to build a lightweight wing structure that is 12 inches long and can hold up a heavy load without deflecting. This site contains the challenge, a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Flow Control System
In this engineering challenge, students will build a system that controls the movement of material and shuts off automatically. This site includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Helicopter
Can you build a helicopter with popsicle sticks, rubber bands, paper clips, and cardboard that flies at least ten feet in the air and stays up for three seconds while carrying one penny? Use this site to accomplish this with a lesson...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Joystick
As part of this engineering project, students will design and build a joystick that can turn on and turn off multiple things. The website also includes a lesson plan, tips to accomplish the challenge, and a place for students to document...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Wind Powered Sailboat
Powered by the wind watch your boat move through the water. This challenge has students making a boat using simple household materials. The website also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Skyscraper for the Wind
A challenge for students to build a skyscraper that stands strong in the wind and is at least 18 inches tall. This challenge includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Powerful Bird Wing
Can you spin around in an office chair when you flap your powerful bird wings? In this challenge, students will design and build a powerful bird wing that can spin you around in an office chair when you flap it. This website contains...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Learn to Draw Proportions
In this challenge, students will draw an animal with accurate proportions. The website includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Magnetic Nanoparticle Coating
Interested in nanoparticles? Use this challenge to design a coating for a magnet that will pick up different surfaces. Challenge includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Bird Beak
In this challenge, students will construct a beak that will allow them to pick up as much food as possible in one try without using their hands. This website includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Disperse Seeds Far and Wide
Students are challenged to engineer a device that will carry a seed at least 3 feet from where it is launched. Students are given access to a site that gives them tips, and a place to document their engineering design process. Also, a...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Space Tool
Using common household items, make a tool that an astronaut could use to pick up an object in space. This site also includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Crank Mechanism
In this challenge, students will transfer rotational motion into linear motion by building a simple machine. The site also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Invent a Biobot
Make a robot that moves like a living creature using a microcontroller, motors, and mechanisms with this challenge. Also, on this challenge find a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Structure That Assembles Itself
Using magnets design and build a structure that builds itself from pieces. This site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a 3 D Object Out of Tetrahedra
Can you build a 3-D object out of tetrahedra that is as big as you are? With this challenge, students will be using common household items to build their tetrahedra structure. Site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Cantilever
Make a cantilever that can hold 5 marbles at least 12 inches away from its base structure with this engineering challenge. The site contains the challenge, a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Construct a Crane
Can you build a crane that uses simple machines and mechanical advantage to move heavy objects? This website contains a challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Balance a Dinosaur
Using common household items, students are challenged to build a dinosaur at least 6" tall that can balance on two legs using counterbalances. This website contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Dna Origami Inspired Structure
Using pasta students will design and construct a container that can travel along a zip line to deliver a cargo which is candy. This challenge is explored on this site as well as tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Long Spanning Wing
Students are challenged to build a wing that can support its own weight over a span of at least two feet on this website. The website also contains a place for students to document their engineering design process, tips, and a lesson plan.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Set of Mechanical Genes
Design a set of mechanical genes that control the way something grows with this challenge on this site. This site also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Safe Stopping Robot
A challenge for students to design and engineer a robot that turns itself off when it leaves a safe area. This challenge contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.