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  • Solar Tower (Adobe Acrobat document icon296 KB)
    This engineering activity challenges you to build a structure that is both tall and stable out of unusual materials. And there's a twist—it has to stay standing even in the direct wind of a fan.
  • Mission Survival (Adobe Acrobat document icon328 KB)
    You are part of a research team stranded in Antarctica. Using the information in this activity, you have to decide what to do to survive. Round up a couple of friends—this activity is best when done as a group.
  • The Amazing Race (Adobe Acrobat document icon364 KB)
    Test your navigation skills as you use limited information to figure out the flight path an airplane took across the eastern United States.
  • Logic Puzzles (Adobe Acrobat document icon276 KB)
    These three flight-related logic puzzles will test your reasoning skills.

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