By Amy Cowen on February 17, 2017 8:00 AM

Celebrate engineers and the spirit of engineering by doing a hands-on STEM project or activity with your students! Our list of 12 fun STEM ideas will get you started!

Photo collage of twelve engineering-based projects

E-Week: Innovative Engineering Projects and Activities for K-12 Students. Hands-on STEM with Science Buddies. www.sciencebuddies.org

Celebrate Engineers Week with Your Students

Our updated Engineers Week collection for 2017 features some excellent choices for student engineering projects and activities at home or in the classroom. The following 12 projects and activities are highlighted in this year's E-Week collection:

  1. Squishy Circuits: Light Up Your Play Doh® Creations!
  2. Junkbots: Robots from Recycled Materials
  3. Build a Gumdrop Geodesic Dome
  4. Flippy, the Dancing Robot
  5. Build a Robot Hand
  6. Follow the Flow
  7. Mini Trebuchet Science
  8. Build a Brushbot
  9. Balloon-Powered Car Challenge
  10. Marble Machine
  11. Mechanical Science Scissor Lift
  12. Projectile Physics and Catapult Science

Be sure and also explore these collections and project roundups for other inspiring ideas for K-12 STEM!

Learn more about Engineers Week on the DiscoverE website.

2017 Fluor Engineering Challenge

Learn more about the 2017 water flow Fluor Challenge on the Fluor Engineering Challenge website.


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Photo collage of twelve engineering-based projects

E-Week: Innovative Engineering Projects and Activities for K-12 Students. Hands-on STEM with Science Buddies. www.sciencebuddies.org



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