The Future Engineer Design Challenge created by NASA and
ASME was a great journey for many K-12 students this past fall/winter. A new challenge will be launching this spring.
All the designs submitted can be seen in the
site's gallery page. The site is very well organized to inspire youth and to engage them in a design thinking journey as they imagine a useful zero gravity space tool to be 3D printed in space.
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| Samples of 5th grade student concept designs in low resolution prototypes and iterated as CAD models. |
Many schools participate in this design journey. I have created a
collaborative doc to capture the various work flows classes used to engage in the project. I am hoping more teachers add their experiences to the doc.
When I have engaged students and teachers in exploring this project, I have created cardboard volume forms for them to hold so that they know the maximum print size of the tool they will be designing. While the low resolution prototypes do not have to be 5cm x 10cm x 5cm, designers need to imagine that their final tool will be 3D printed at that size. Here are the
design guidelines for this challenge.
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| Volume forms representing the 3D print size constraint of 5cm x 10cm x 5cm |
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