Welcome to the 23rd Annual The Tech Challenge.

Spectator Overview

The Tech Challenge is an annual team design challenge for youth in grades 5 through 12. A signature program of The Tech Museum, the challenge introduces and reinforces the scientific process with a hands-on project geared to solve a real-world problem. All this, and it's fun!

The project-based nature of this program makes it unique from any other science-based program or competition for youth. Open and accessible to anyone in the 5th to 12th grade age range; The Tech Challenge inspires the innovator in everyone.

This Year's Challenge

International Space Station Mission: Space Junk

Your team's challenge is to design and create a device that can attach two Hall Thrusters, Size "D" Batteries will be used to represent the thrusters, to an inoperable Satellite so that NASA can force it to de-orbit and burn up upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere to help rid our galaxy of it's space junk.

"The fact that a lot of these tests didn't go as well as we'd planned only added to the coolism. If our tests had worked on the first try, it would have been boring. We had to learn how to assemble pieces we'd never used before."

The Tech Challenge Participant 2007, team name Tech Baninis