Design challenge: Assemble a useful item out of cardboard that transforms into something else.

Grades 4-5 Division:

Team #35 ( Team Titans )

Special Recognitions:

Judges' Choice: Outstanding Research (Grades 4-5)

Team #35 (Team Titans)

Design challenge: Design and build a hovercraft that can navigate different terrains.

Design challenge: Design and build a device to survive a drop and deliver supplies. No batteries allowed!

Grade 6 Division:

Team #220 ( Dare to Dream )

Special Recognitions:

Judges' Choice: Real-World Application (Grade 6)

Team #220 (Dare to Dream)

Design challenge: Design and build a device to help explorers cross an ice field with multiple ravines.

Grades 4-5 Division:

Team #25 ( Purple Pineapples )

Special Recognitions:

Judges' Choice: Best Effort (Grades 4-5)

Team #25 (Purple Pineapples)

Design challenge: Build a glider to deliver supplies to a remote location.

Grades 4-5 Division:

Team #297 (Creative Cats )

Special Recognitions:

Judges' Choice: Amazing Quality Assurance (Grades 4-5)

Team #297 (Creative Cats)

Design challenge: Build an earthquake-safe structure.

Design challenge: Harness the wind to move water to the people who need it.

Grades 5-6 Division:

Team #15 ( FOuR the WINdz )

Special Recognitions:

Best Overall 2nd Place (Grades 5-6)

Team #15 (FOuR the WINdz)

Design challenge: Create a solution to safely deploy scientific instruments from a landed spacecraft to three areas on an asteroid.

Grades 5-6 Division:

Team #3 ( 3 Minutes or Less )

Special Recognitions:

Best Engineering Journal 2nd Place (Grades 5-6)

Team #3 (3 Minutes or Less)

Design challenge: Create a solution to help earthquake survivors stranded after a bridge collapse.

Design challenge: Design and build a device to collect trash from the ocean without harming marine life.

Design challenge: Design and build a solution that can help rid the universe of space junk by getting an inoperative satellite to burn up upon re-entry.

Design challenge: Create a device that can deliver a payload of up to six geological instruments (aka ping-pong balls) to the top of a volcano in three minutes.

Design challenge: Create a device to deliver water to a tank in a village on a hill above the river. There is no electricity in the village; only the flow of the river can be used to generate power.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate an unmanned device that can survive a 12-foot drop into a Martian crater and then successfully exit the crater by ascending a 6-foot wall.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate an innovative improvement to current sandbag-filling solutions.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a device that can retrieve water (one water balloon) from a lake and deliver it to a fire (a designated target) on the top of a ridge.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a device that can find and collect one northern pike fish from Lake Davis and place the fish within a collection area on shore.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a device that can climb vertically up a 15.5-foot-long rope and reach the top of our make-believe rainforest canopy to retrieve a ping pong ball.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a device that will pick up, move and set down a make-believe torch.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a device that will climb the wall of a simulated crater on Mars.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a device that will repair a drifting satellite that is slowly rotating in space by inserting a battery to restore its power.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a device to reach the top of a simulated swaying boat mast, trigger a sensor and safely return to the base of the mast.

Design challenge: Design a device that simulates an inspection mechanism that can traverse the bridge cable between two upright supports.

Design challenge: Design a robotic lander/rover that can accurately and safely crash-land onto an ancient Martian flood plain when released from high above the planet’s surface.

Design challenge: Design a device that ascends a passageway, negotiates various obstacles on the track, and successfully reaches the top within three minutes. The ramp or track simulates the interior of an ancient Egyptian pyramid burial site with steep long passageways and obstacles.

Design challenge: Design a lightweight, small rope-climbing device that can quickly ascend and descend a 15-foot rope simulating a trip to the tall rainforest tree canopy.

Design challenge: Help NASA retrieve a canister of nuclear waste from the bottom of an ice-covered Antarctic lake, directly below a large hole in the ice.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a device that will repair a drifting satellite that is slowly rotating in space by inserting a battery to restore its power.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a Rover vehicle that can operate on a simulated Mars surface, move from landing site through rough terrain, collect a Mars rock sample and return and deposit the sample back at the landing site.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a Mars Rover to escape a difficult situation, jump a gap, resist soft sand and climb steep walls.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a Mars Rover that will analyze and sort soil and then climb a steep incline.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a device that will find traction through dense surface material on Mars.

Design challenge: Design, build and operate a device that will travel across large gaps in Martian terrain.