Authentic Engineering at Your School

Authentic Engineering at Your School

Looking for engaging Engineering and Design activities that motivate students to reach their full creative potential? Dylan Ryder and students from The School at Columbia University will share their curriculum and projects that solve authentic design problems in their community.

What inspired you to begin investigating your topic or inspired you to make your project?:
I was inspired to pursue authentic design challenges in my curriculum after searching for a way to engage those students that were bored with contrived classroom activities. I asked other teachers in our school building for real design problems that they were seeking solutions for. Since then we have engaged students in an annual design and fabrication challenge where students test their creativity and problem solving skills while engrossed in motivating, public work with an authentic audience.

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