Asteroid Lander Mission
Use your creativity to help create a vehicle to land and collect minerals from an asteroid.
Miner Rescue
Use your mechanical engineering skills to create a piece of rescue equipment that is sturdy and safe.
Plastic Rescue Mission
In celebration of Earth Day, Girlstart needs ideas on how to engineer a device to clean up ocean plastic. Using your imagination, construct a device that can safely remove plastic but not harm wildlife.
Prosthetic Prototype
Help engineer a durable, comfortable, and life-like prosthetic prototype for an amputee patient.
Robot Adventure
A robot is a machine that senses the world, processes the sensor’s information with a computer, and then does something in response to that information. What specific function would your robot have?
Space Salad
Can you grow salad in Space? Use your creativity to create a prototype growing device to support fresh veggies on the International Space Station.
Lunar Orbiter
You have been hired by Girlstart to join an all-girl team of engineers to create a LRO prototype. Girlstart and NASA need your help to explore the moon’s surface and environment. Design a compact orbiter to travel in space to record the moon’s images, temperature, radiation, and more. Remember, be creative and have fun!
Tightrope Walker
You have been hired by Girlstart as a physicist to design a prototype of a tightrope walker that can balance on the high wire! Use your creativity and knowledge of forces and gravity to design a tightrope walker that can successfully make it across the line at the testing stations.