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 create a WhatsApp group 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 team advisers.

2025 Tech Challenge Info Session - Sinnott PTA

Tech Challenge Sign up Form

Contact Tech Challenge Program Chair

Important Dates

Participant Event Schedule

2025 Tech Challenge: Gravitate to Navigate!

There are many ways to get from here to there and back again. Some vehicles are powered by gasoline, electricity, hydrogen or even solar. In this year’s challenge, teams will use gravity to power their devices. Is your team ready to build a vehicle that can go the distance and document your journey?

The challenge: Build a device that uses the power of gravity to traverse multiple tracks.

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Last Year's Teams

We are very excited to have 10 teams from Sinnott (with a total of 40 students) that participated in the 2024 Tech Challenge: Cosmic Quest!

Their challenge was to build a launcher to deliver multiple payloads to different locations.

Grades 4-5 Teams

Grade 6 Teams

We are thrilled to announce that our teams won two awards at the 2024 Tech Challenge showcase!

Team #17 (Galactic Troopers)
- Outstanding Engineering Design Process Award for Grade 6
Team #264 (Guardians of the Galaxy)
- Outstanding Engineering Journal Award for Grade 6

Congratulations to the award winners and all of our participants!

Thank you to everyone who supported each team!

We want to give a big shout-out to all of our amazing team advisers for helping guide each team during the challenge!

2024 Final Showcase Highlights