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Image of a woman releasing a cardboard rover that jumps forward. A model of the Curiosity rover can be seen in the background

Audience

Students

Grade Levels

Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12

Subject

Engineering Design

Type

Play and Learn

In this challenge, you will build a rubber-band-powered rover that can scramble across the room. Build your rover out of cardboard, figure out how to use rubber bands to spin the wheels and use the engineering design process to improve your rover based on test results. Then, challenge your friends.

Make a Cardboard Rover

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