Challenge Your Students to Solve Fun, Real-world Problems

Download free, customizable design challenges

Design challenges are a great way to encourage your students to develop a solution-focused mindset. Through these projects, students have the freedom to think critically and create innovative solutions, and these skills are highly valued in today’s job market. The challenges in this packet include designing:

Fun, patriotic sunglasses that will be affordable enough to manufacture in bulk

A scary, multi-body assembly that catches haunted house visitors by surprise

A sled that earns “Best in Snow” in both safety and speed

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Design challenges take students through the entire design thinking process, from uncovering a problem, to coming up with solutions, creating a prototype, and reflecting on any necessary changes.