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 "Whirlybird" 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. Make a Robot Hand Using Drinking Straws
16. Build a Paper Speaker
17. 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

Other Engineering Projects

For other engineering projects to do with students, see these resource collections:

• 12+ Engineering Challenges for Elementary School
• 16+ Engineering Challenges for Middle School
• 11+ Engineering Challenges for High School

Science Buddies Engineering Challenge

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