STEM Skills Challenge- Paperclip Airplanes

During this series on STEM Skills Challenges, we are focusing on the soft-skills that help make our students well-rounded and, according to local businesses, more employable.

The STEM Skills Challenges Bundle Pack harnesses the power of STEM challenges and focuses on these essential success skills that our students need to be effective in the STEM workforce.

With these skills, students will no doubt land themselves at the top of the list when going out into the workforce! This Bundle Pack includes 10 design challenges that focus on teamwork as well as other elements like design briefs and interactive STEM notebook pages.

The Paperclip Airplane challenge will exercise student creativity as well as math skills. For this challenge, students will work individually to design and construct a paper airplane that will carry the maximum amount of cargo the farthest distance.

This tricky little challenge will require some thought and planning in working with multiple variables, but will help students to think critically about how to obtain the highest point value.