Exhibits & Engineering Design Challenges

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Fly High: Create your own flying machine and test it in a wind tube.
Build a Bridge: Experiment with the basics of bridge building and then create your own.
KEVA Planks: Construct your own creations with our collection of more than 6,000 KEVA planks—precisely milled pine planks that can be used to build almost anything you can imagine.    
      

New engineering design challenge every month!

May: Build a Helping Hand
Design and build a device that lets you grab different objects and drop them in a container that’s at least two feet away from you.

June: Cardboard Automata
Design and create your own moving sculpture using a shoebox, skewers, and foam disks. With these simple mechanisms and materials, you'll be able to make your piece of art come to life.

July: Vehicles
Design and build a vehicle to race down our track. Try different wheels and treads and experiment with motors and gears to see what makes your car go the fastest.

Great Creations from the Inventor's Lab

Find your creations at http://www.flickr.com/photos/inventors_lab/

Go to archives, click on the month, then the day you visited the Inventor's Lab, to find your image.