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
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
6. Take part in a paper plane design challenge; build and test your different prototypes!
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!
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17. Strongest shape challenge
18. Try your hand at constructing a balloon flinker: gs-strong.org/ balloonflinker
19. Read Emma Ren Robot Engineer by Jenny Lu
20. Create a mini hover board
21. Clean up an oil spill; design and construct a floating boom that will prevent an oil spill from reaching the beach
To receive credit for your participation, fill out the Engineering Week form by visiting gs-strong.org/engineeringweek
32. Construct a pinwheel
33. Make a Planetary Pasta Rover
34. Build your own
35. Challenge yourself while building rockets! gs-strong.org/ rocket
36. Construct your own bridge
37. Read The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
7. Try your hand at the plastic milk experiment
8. Visit & play some engineering games on gs-strong.org/ engineeringgames
9. Plan, build and test a prototype for a Robo Arm; make improvements!
10. Tallest cup tower challenge
11. Build a cantilever
12. Make a Ring Wing Glider
13. Read Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty
14. Test out levers with this activity: gs-strong.org/levers
15. Construct your own squishy circuit
16. Launch: catapult construction
22. Use Tinkercad to design your own 3d print
23. Visit the Smithsonian website and make your own time capsule: gs-strong.org/timecapsule
24. Make a wheel balloon car
25. Build and launch a foam rocket
26. Design an eye glasses case
27. Hoop gliders
28. Explore clever ways to water plants: gs-strong.org/ cleverwater
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
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
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?
