Overview

The Tech Challenge is an annual team engineering design challenge for students in Grades 4-12 where participants develop creative solutions to a real-world problem. It is conducted by the Tech Interactive, San Jose. This is a great way for children to improve their creative problem-solving and teamwork skills. Participants spend months collaborating and becoming deeply engaged in the challenge while documenting their progress and designs. The program culminates in an inspiring two-day showcase in May where teams put their solutions to the test in front of judges.

Info Session

This year, the PTA will help organize teams from Grades 4-6 at Sinnott and reimburse the team registration fee for up to ten teams (first come, first served). Each team can have between 2 to 6 students from Grades 4-6 and requires one adult to act as the team adviser. We hope to increase the participation from Sinnott with your help.

Sign up with Sinnott PTA either individually or as a team. All team members need to be registered by their respective parents. For individual registrations, PTA will host a Zoom meeting for the parents to help them discuss and form teams. The PTA will also create a WhatsApp group to share announcements and reminders with all the parents.

2026 Tech Challenge Info Session - Sinnott PTA

Tech Challenge Sign up Form

Contact Tech Challenge Program Chair

Important Dates

Participant Event Schedule

2026 Tech Challenge: Raise The Roof

The Bay Area is in need of low-cost housing!

This year’s challenge is to design a device that easily builds affordable housing for all people.

How might you accurately lift housing modules into place?

The challenge: Design, build, test, and demonstrate an innovative lifting device that transfers housing modules from one place to another at a construction site.

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2025 Sinnott Teams

We are very excited to have 5 teams from Sinnott that participated in the 2025 Tech Challenge: Gravitate to Navigate!

Their challenge was to build a device that uses the power of gravity to traverse multiple tracks.

Grades 4-5 Division

Team #203 ( Quantum Queens )
Team # 270 ( Newton Ninjas )
Team #290 ( Team Rockets )
Team #371 ( Tech Titans )

Grade 6 Division

Team #370 ( The “Car”toon Club )

2025 Team #203 (Quantum Queens)

2025 Team #270 (Newton Ninjas)

2025 Team #290 (Team Rockets)

2025 Team #371 (Tech Titans)

2025 Team #370 (The "Car"toon Club)

2025 Final Showcase Highlights

We are thrilled to announce that Team #203 (Quantum Queens) has won the Outstanding Engineering Journal Award for Grades 4-5 at the 2025 Tech Challenge Showcase!