STEM Skills Challenge- Smooth Sailing

Throughout this series, we’ve been talking about the importance of soft skills and how many employers are looking for these key skills when interviewing and hiring.

Recently, a Gallup poll conducted a survey asking Americans whether soft skills should be taught in K-12 schools. When it comes to teaching critical thinking skills, an overwhelming 80% of those surveyed believe they should be taught. The other 4C’s communication, collaboration, and creativity were highly rated as well.

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.

This STEM Skills Challenge will help to build those skills as students design and build a sailboat that will “sail” at least four feet in under one minute. The catch? Students will only be allowed to use a set of specific materials. Once teams have designed their boats, students will test them on a table top or a tile floor. Hopefully, the team has collaborated on a successful design and it’s smooth sailing!