Number of Activities Required to Earn the Engineering Week Challenge Fun Patch: • Daisies 3 • Brownies 5 • Juniors 7 • Cadettes 8 • Seniors 9 • Ambassadors 10 • Adults Complete the same number of activities as your Girl Scout
GSTOP Engineering Week Challenge 2025 Engineering Week is a time to celebrate how engineers make a difference in our world and explore the exciting world of engineering through hands-on activities, reading, challenges, and games! Please note, all of the web addresses listed below in purple and bold underline are linked and clickable! Scan the QR Code to learn more about women in engineering.
To receive credit for your participation, fill out the Engineering Week form by visiting gs-strong.org/engineeringweek
1. Foil boat build & sink challenge 2. Puff Mobiles activity: gs-strong.org/puffmobiles 3. Read Who Built My Ziggy-Zaggy School? By Erin Tierney 4. Design a better bubble wand and test your product 5. Create and test a marble run
17. Strongest shape challenge
32. Construct a pinwheel
18. Try your hand at constructing a balloon flinker: gs-strong.org/ balloonflinker
33. Make a Planetary Pasta Rover
19. Read Emma Ren Robot Engineer by Jenny Lu
35. Challenge yourself while building rockets! gs-strong.org/ rocket
20. Create a mini hover board 36. Construct your own bridge
6. Take part in a paper plane design challenge; build and test your different prototypes!
21. Clean up an oil spill; design and construct a floating boom that will prevent an oil spill from reaching the beach
7. Try your hand at the plastic milk experiment
22. Use Tinkercad to design your own 3d print
8. Visit & play some engineering games on gs-strong.org/ engineeringgames
23. Visit the Smithsonian website and make your own time capsule: gs-strong.org/timecapsule
9. Plan, build and test a prototype for a Robo Arm; make improvements!
24. Make a wheel balloon car
11. Build a cantilever
27. Hoop gliders
12. Make a Ring Wing Glider
28. Explore clever ways to water plants: gs-strong.org/ cleverwater
15. Construct your own squishy circuit 16. Launch: catapult construction
38. Make and test the strength of your Marshmallow bridge 39. Visit the EngineerGirl website and learn about being an engineer 40. Create a pipe maze 41. Try an oldie, but a goodie: the famous egg drop challenge 42. Design a potato battery
26. Design an eye glasses case
14. Test out levers with this activity: gs-strong.org/levers
37. Read The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
25. Build and launch a foam rocket
10. Tallest cup tower challenge
13. Read Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty
34. Build your own
29. Read Girls Can Be Engineers by Jamila H Lindo 30. Create your own wiggle bot 31. Design and build a pipe system to transport water from one place to the other
43. Read Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding by Lina Liukas 44. Build skyscrapers in jello! gs-strong.org/skyscraper 45.Create a robot friend out of recycled materials; what do they do? Why do we need this kind of robot?