Wondergy is proud to announce that we will be running a nationwide engineering challenge this school year! We’ve taken over the Potato Chip Challenge, a project in which students design packages to successfully get a potato chip through the mail to another student across the country, without breaking the chip. This real-world engineering problem is aligned with the National Science Standards, in which students identify, design, implement, evaluate, and communicate a science or engineering problem. To further help, Wondergy will be publishing lesson plans to support teachers who choose to participate.

While the website is being completed, we’re looking for more interested schools. Last time this was run, there was a network of over 120 schools; we would like to invite our friends and colleagues into this wonderful network, too. To further develop the network, Wondergy is also seeking a financial sponsor. If you think that the Potato Chip Challenge sounds interesting, please tell your child’s teacher or principal. If you are a teacher and would like to sign your class up for the challenge, by all means do so! To sign up for the challenge’s mailing list, please visit: www.potatochipchallenge.com/signup.html

For more information and rules of the challenge, see www.potatochipchallenge.com