Three ways to experience engineering innovation
Build bridges. Create robots. Design machines through hands-on engineering challenges!
Create workshops. Assign challenges. Track student engineering progress.
View your child's builds. Celebrate innovations. Support their engineering journey.
Hands-on challenges that teach real engineering principles!
Curated hands-on activities and educational materials from the National Informal STEM Education Network — free for educators, families, and community organizations.
Use building blocks to design and construct a base on the Moon that allows explorers to survive and thrive. Teaches structural engineering and design thinking.
Explore wireless communication engineering, radio technology, and signal processing through hands-on building and experimentation.
Build a working solar cell using nanocrystalline titanium dioxide and raspberry juice. Learn about renewable energy engineering and photovoltaic technology.
Explore engineering at the nanoscale — build models, test materials, and discover how nanotechnology is used in real-world applications.
Hands-on activities exploring electrical engineering concepts including circuits, conductivity, and energy transfer.
Engineering ethics and responsible innovation activities inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Explore the consequences of technological creation.
Celebrate America's semiquincentennial by exploring 250 years of engineering and invention. Hands-on activities trace how American innovation shaped everyday life.
Every Engineering Academy lesson maps directly to NGSS Engineering Design performance expectations — the same standards used by leading STEM schools across 45+ states to build real engineering thinkers.
ETS1.A: Defining Problems
ETS1.B: Possible Solutions
ETS1.C: Optimizing Solutions