2020 Design Challenges Available
A document containing a brief description of the TEK8 program and all the facilitator’s guides and the student handouts for all of the 2020 design challenges is available here. The guides and videos are also available by clicking on each design challenge in the table below. This year a TEK8 Design Storyboard was developed as a tool to help students record their progress through the design process.
| Title | Description | Engineering Area |
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Repair damage to an airplane after a UAV collision. |
Mechanical Engineering | |
| Design a sensor that can alert someone that a door has been opened. | Electrical Engineering | |
| Design a NanoDyn force sensor with household supplies. | Biomedical Engineering | |
| Build a balanced drone frame. | Aerospace Engineering | |
| Design a buoy to hold a generator that uses the motion of waves. | Electrical Engineering | |
| Design light barrier that can change states allowing varying amounts of light to pass. | Materials Science Engineering | |
| Design the smallest cut possible for a surgeon to complete an organ transplant through. | Biomedical Engineering | |
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Create a code to properly sort objects until there is one item left standing at the end. |
Biomedical Engineering | |
| Build a pericellular matrix (PCM) around your cell to stop water from leaking out when a force is applied. | Biomedical Engineering | |
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Build a power plant structure around the generator that can take on weather elements of rain, hail and wind. |
Electrical Engineering | |
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Design a structure around a small object that protects the object when in the human body. |
Biomedical Engineering | |
| Create a neural network that can determine what animal is in a picture. | Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
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Build a sorter so that the computer can tell the difference between 2 different types of data. |
Computer Science and Engineering | |
| Build a filter that can both clean the water effectively and be built quickly. | Environmental (Civil) Engineering |
