{"id":14579,"date":"2021-02-04T16:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-lawrence-hall.pantheon.berkeley.edu\/?p=553"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:01:10","slug":"ingenuity-challenges","status":"publish","type":"exhibits","link":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/exhibits\/ingenuity-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingenuity Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Flex Your Design Muscles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Scientists and engineers use their ingenuity and creativity to design, build, and test solutions to different problems. In Ingenuity Challenges, you\u2019ll take on one of a rotating series of brainteasers. Put your creativity to the test and use recycled materials to create your unique invention. Build new musical instruments, plan a marble contraption, and more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Musical Marble Machines<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to the world of Musical Marble Machines<\/strong>! This hands-on activity invites young engineers to create their own musical masterpiece using marbles, bells, chimes, ramps, and tubes. Get ready to design, build, and test an amazing machine that makes music as marbles race through it!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Beat Builders<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create your own rhythm making machines! In this tinkering challenge, you\u2019ll use spinning wheels, pegs, and sound makers to design unique rhythms. Try out musical patterns, swap pieces, and see what happens when science and music collide. Work solo or jam with friends to create one-of-a-kind soundscapes!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Giant Geometry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explore building in two and three dimensions while discovering the design properties involved in constructing sturdy structures, bridges, roller coasters, and more! We bring the building materials; you supply the creativity!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Check out some of the other challenges our learning designers have developed! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Circuitry and Artbots<\/strong>
Experiment with engineering and motion as you design, build, and test artbots. Observe and compare how your motorized contraptions perform as you create surprising and unexpected patterns. Experiment with circuitry and build your own jitterbots, or design custom LEGO\u00ae artbots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hydraulics\u2014<\/strong>Water-Powered Machines<\/strong>
Have you ever wondered how a crane is able to lift heavy objects, or how desk chairs can go up or down at the push of a lever? Come and design innovative hydraulic and pneumatic systems that can lift, push, or pull an object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linkages and Moving Toys<\/strong>
Find your inner engineer and artist by exploring linkages. Use mechanical linkages to prototype mechanisms with specific movements while designing your own animated characters and moving toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Optical Illusions<\/strong>
Design, build, and test your own optical illusion while learning about the human eye as part of our newest Ingenuity challenge. Observe and compare how optical illusions work, while you create fun and unique designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinball Palooza<\/strong>
Learn the inner mechanics of a pinball machine, then construct your own! Use everyday materials to create flippers, plungers, and ramps to make your pinball machine uniquely yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosthetic Hand Challenge<\/strong>
Do you have what it takes to design, build, and test a prosthetic hand?  This challenge was developed in partnership with UC Berkeley’s CITRIS<\/a> Lab on an exhibit spun from Sophie\u2019s Super Hand<\/a>.  Use a variety of materials to design, build, and test a prosthetic hand as part of our newest Ingenuity Challenge, funded by Colocation America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turbines and Windmills<\/strong>
Design, build, and test wind turbines to harness the power of the wind. In this engineering design challenge, you will experiment with blade designs to find out how much electricity you <\/em>can generate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urban Water Challenge (ReNUWIt)<\/strong>
How do engineers influence the water we use and drink? Engineers at ReNUWIt are reinventing the nation\u2019s urban water infrastructure. Be a water engineer and design your own systems to make urban water safe, sustainable, and (re)usable. For more information about ReNUWIt, visit renuwit.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flex Your Design Muscles. It\u2019s fun to use your ingenuity to solve problems and meet challenges! By approaching things in creative ways, and by applying your own talents and skills, you can discover solutions that are uniquely you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3810,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14579","exhibits","type-exhibits","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-build-test","category-exhibit","category-featured-exhibits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibits\/14579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibits"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibits"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibits\/14579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44328,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibits\/14579\/revisions\/44328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}