Students create a presentation for their peers by exploring planets, missions, and asteroids with NASA’s Eyes, a free, web-based interactive.

Students balance circular and gravitational forces to create a model of an object in orbit.

Students learn how waves are used in communication with spacecraft and practice communicating using a similar process.

In this challenge, students will use a model robotic arm to move items from one location to another. They will engage in the engineering design process to design, build and operate the arm.

Using only pasta and glue, students design a rover that will travel down a one-meter ramp and then travel an additional one meter on a smooth, flat surface.

Students use satellite data to help determine the greatest renewable energy potentials in any given region and develop graphing skills.

Student teams use the engineering design process and everyday materials to design an insulator that will keep a small amount of water from rapidly changing temperature.

Students use the engineering design process to build a structure to handle the greatest load and gain first-hand experience with compression and tension forces.

Students design and build a solar hot water heater and see how big a temperature change they can get.