STEMEPA's latest successful event saw 11 student-engineered landers successfully deployed. Physics in action!
To all the young engineers who participated, planned, and problem-solved. A special shout-out to the winning team:
Special thanks to the incredible teachers who made this mission possible:
Applying real classroom science to solve a high-stakes engineering challenge.
Students learned to extend the time of impact to reduce the force on the egg. Soft landing gear and crumple zones were key!
Understanding that all objects fall at the same rate regardless of mass (ignoring air resistance), and managing terminal velocity.
Building strong yet lightweight frames using triangles for stability and distributing load away from the payload.
The most important engineering lesson: testing, failing, analyzing, and improving the design for the next attempt.