Celebrate Engineers Week with 15+ Hands-on STEM Projects

Science Buddies has great ideas for engineering projects and activities you can do with your students to celebrate Engineers Week. With the right project, integrating a hands-on STEM activity is something all teachers can do!

1. Marble Machine
2. Art Bot: Build a Wobbly Robot That Creates Art
3. Balloon-Powered Car Challenge
4. Build a Gumdrop Geodesic Dome
5. Milk Does Your Body and a Boat Good—Design Your Own Milk Carton Boat
6. LED Dance Glove: Get the Party Started with Your Own Interactive Light Show
7. Let's Go Fly a Kite!
8. Flippy, the Dancing Robot
9. Rocking the Boat
10. Get Crafty — Create Your Own Durable Paper Doll
11. Make a "Whirly Bird" from Paper
12. Separating Mixtures: Can You Design a Device to Do It?
13. Make a Paper Circuit
14. Squishy Circuits: Light Up Your Play Doh® Creations!
15. Grasping with Straws: Make a Robot Hand Using Drinking Straws
16. Build a Paper Speaker
17. Crash! Can Cell Phones Survive a Drop Test?
18. Build a Brushbot
19. Build a Water Clock to Show the Drip, Drip, Drip of Time
20. Keeping You in Suspens(ion)
21. The Leaning Tower of Pasta
22. Do Submarines Need Fins?
23. Paper Rocket

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