4-H Engineering Design Project
What you'll do
What problem do you want to solve? Cook a hot dog with the sun? Make a car run on wind power? Communicate with birds? Design a solution and build it. Learn engineering design skills and you'll know how.
Levels of learning
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Wind energy experiment from National 4-H (free)
Rubber band cars experiment from National 4-H (free)
Iowa 4-H Science, Engineering & Technology Hot Sheet (free download)
3-D modeling derby, Engineering an Empire and other activity books from Utah 4-H (free download)
National 4-H Sparkfun Inventor's Kit (for sale)
Try Engineering (free online games)
How and why do things move the way they do? (video)
Curiosity Machine design challenges
Engineering science fair projects from education.com
Engineering is Everywhere hands-on activities
Power of the Wind activities and kit (for sale)
Engineering Go For It activities, careers, scholarships and more
Enter a Minnesota regional science fair
Fairs & exhibits
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Engineering Design can cover a broad range of topics and objects. Judges will look at how well you have applied the engineering design process.
Some ideas
You could design, build and test a
- hand that can grab items
- water filtration device
- musical instrument
- model of a roller coaster
- model of a bridge
- bottle rocket launcher
- catapult
- goat milking stand
- model of a wind turbine
- rubber band car
- solar oven
- Rube Goldberg Machine
- wave-powered device to recharge boat batteries
What a judge is looking for (project evaluation sheet)
County fair judging - what's that like? (video)
Reviewed in 2018
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