The NeuroMaker Challenge
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What is the NeuroMaker Challenge?
The NeuroMaker Creative Challenge is an annual, open design competition in which middle school and high school students choose a socially conscious engineering problem they would like to solve and present a prototype on how they would solve it. Students research their problem, design a solution, create a physical prototype incorporating the BrainCo NeuroMaker Kit and then submit their solution virtually for BrainCo engineers to review based on a judging rubric.
BrainCo engineers select six finalists, three from middle school submissions and three from high school submissions. Each group of first, second and third place finalists respectively receive $1,500, $500 and $250 and recognition from BrainCo’s prosthetic engineering team. Five additional awards will be presented to teams that recognize important engineering and personal growth traits such as empathy, creativity and perseverance.
The NeuroMaker Creative Challenge is free for any student team that has purchased a NeuroMaker STEM kit from an approved sales channel.
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How it Works
Gather a Group
Students participating in the Neuromaker creative challenge form a project group consisting of two to four students with an adult mentor, typically a teacher or guardian
Research Ideas
The group researches an issue such as helping amputees. They brainstorm ideas for how they can help with communication, eating or drinking or simply offering a handshake with a prosthetic hand
Assemble Your Project
The project group then uses the Brainco STEM Kit to build a hands on prototype of their solution to this issue
Submit Your Prototype
The project group finally arranges their research and thought process into a scientific proposal essay and records a simple video of their prototype solution which is then submitted to the Neuromaker review board for analysis.
The Neuromaker Creative Challenge is open to all who wish to participate, whether you are a group of hobbyists or class of students. We particularly recommend this for the following groups:
Afterschool Activity Groups
Bring an open-ended creative capstone project into the classroom with real world connections to top institutions.
Middle School and High School CTE classes
Bring an open-ended creative capstone project into the classroom with real world connections to top institutions.
At Home Projects
Bring an open-ended creative capstone project into the classroom with real world connections to top institutions.
Get Started!
If you have any questions about the Neuromaker Creative Challenge or would like to sign up, please fill out the following form! We'll send you a discount code when you sign up!