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Inventors & Engineers

Success Zone / Blue Ridge - Briargate -
2025 Spring

Join this invention packed class where problem-solving, teamwork, and creativity will be challenged with time-based challenges. Kids will collaborate, construct, test, succeed, and fail to solve problems that stretch their minds and reinforce hands-on science and engineering principles.

Semester at a Glance

Week Challenge name Description
1 Ski Slalom Speedway Understand the scientific meaning of Force as it relates to slalom skiing. Design a Ski Slalom Speedway that functions like the prototype.
2 Spirit Rally at Sharky’s Bank Learn about some famous entrepreneurs and their achievements and what it means to be an entrepreneur. Apply the STEAMbuilding steps (i.e. the Scientific Process) to build a mechanical savings bank.
3 City Planner Speedway Learn about magnets, poles, attraction, and repulsion and about new, pollution free alternatives for transportation. Collaborate with their team to design and build a new city.
4 Assistive Graber Device Design and build a grabber device, teams build their prototype which they test, evaluate, and make improvements.
5 Elephant Prosthetic Challenge Brainstorm and design a prosthetic leg for an elephant. Teams will test it out on human knee, so it must be safe, comfortable and stay on when they walk.
6 Water Turbine Learn about hydroelectric generators and how they convert mechanical energy into electricity. Design and build a water turbine and teams can compare the amount of weights their different designs will lift.
7 Suspension Bridge Learn about the structure and use of a suspension bridge. Construct a physical prototype: starting with plans and ideas, using materials to build the physical model.
8 Candle Carousel Design and build your own candle carousel and investigate how the spinning speed of the carousel is related to the number of candles you use to power it. How fast can you make it spin?
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Map/Locations
Locations
Blue Ridge Elementary
6241 McHard Rd
Houston, TX 77053
SZ-BRE-5

  Arayah LLC

Blue Ridge Elementary
Wednesdays, Feb 19 - Apr 16
3:45 - 4:45 PM

  No Class Mar 12

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Grades   1st - 5th
Price: $ 175 00