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Builder's Lab
12 weeks Released
Builder's Lab is the engineering counterpart to the Code Crew coding line. Each week is one real challenge: a tower that holds a tennis ball five inches off the table, a paper airplane that flies at least 10 feet, a marble run that takes 5 seconds or more. Kids plan, build, test, change one thing, and test again, using household materials. For K-5 with a grown-up reading along and helping with anything sharp.
- Sketch a design before building
- Test, measure, and record what happened
- Identify why a design failed (load, balance, friction, geometry)
- Iterate: change one variable at a time
- Compare two designs honestly using a measurement
- Explain a design choice in plain language
