Design Challenges

STEM activities for curious families and classrooms

Technovation Families' free design challenges explore a range of science, technology, and engineering topics through fun, hands-on activities that promote creativity and problem-solving to find unique solutions.

Learn from the scientists and engineers who are creating the technologies of tomorrow, and use what you learn to build your own invention!

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Computer Science Design Challenges

Build a Neural Network

Build a Neural Network

Create a network that classifies information

Build a Parallel Processing Machine

Build a Parallel Processing Machine

Build something that can sort data through multiple parallel channels

Build a Self Driving Car Game

Build a Self Driving Car Game

Build a game board that acts as a system of circuits to alert and navigate around obstacles

Hack a Box

Hack a Box

Build a box that only you know how to open and is safe from hackers.

Build a 3-D Object out of Tetrahedra

Build a 3-D Object out of Tetrahedra

Build a 3-D object out of tetrahedra that is as big as you are.

Invent a Bio•bot

Invent a Bio•bot

Use a microcontroller, motors, and mechanisms to make a robot that moves like a living creature!

Build a Bubble Switch

Build a Bubble Switch

Make a bubble maze that allows bubbles to move through a series of “on” and “off” switches.

Make a Flat Ball

Make a Flat Ball

Create a ball that is as round as possible using simple geometric shapes cut out of paper and taped together.

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