Registration is now open! 

This year’s project, Ultimate Upcycle, is designed to meet the unpredictable challenges of living and working during a pandemic, with a focus on sustainability, upcycling and transformation. 

One person's trash is another person’s treasure. It’s time to take that old cardboard box and upcycle it into something different. The challenge: Assemble a useful item out of cardboard that transforms into something else.

Register now, read the rules here and get started today!

Where can you learn engineering design skills, discover how to solve real-world problems, practice working collaboratively and have a whole lot of fun at the same time?
Register for The Tech Challenge!

The Tech Challenge, presented by Zoom Video Communications, is a signature program of The Tech that invites teams of students in Grades 4-12 to use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem. Participants spend months collaborating and becoming deeply engaged in the challenge while documenting their progress and designs. The program culminates in an inspiring two-day showcase in April where teams put their solutions to the test in front of judges.

1. Check out The Tech Challenge event schedule. Two very important dates are:

   • October 8, when registration opens. 

   • April 24-25, the showcase. 

   Also, be sure to mark down the dates of info clinics, adviser trainings, team workshops and test trials. These events will help!

2. Form a team. A team is two to six students (including you!) plus one adult adviser. Your adviser doesn’t need to be an engineer. After all, this is your team’s project and you’re in charge.

3. Register and meet. Don’t forget, your adviser needs to register your team! Registration opens October 8, 2020. Plan some team meetings to get started. How often you meet is up to you.

4. Start your engineering journal. Your journal is one of three areas on which your team will be judged at the showcase. It’s important to show how your team made its device and why you made the choices you did. A good way to start is by writing down what your team talks about during meetings.

   The other two judging areas happen during the showcase: your team’s interview with a pair of judges and your device’s performance.
   
   

5. Talk to your adviser and team about safety. Safety is always The Tech Challenge’s number one priority. In fact, judges keep track of each team’s overall safety and score it accordingly.
   

2020 award winners