3-D Engineering: Design and build your own prototypes

In 3-D Engineering: Build your own prototypes, young readers apply science and math skills to tackle real-life engineering problems by figuring out real life solutions. Prototypes are preliminary models used by engineers-and kids-to evaluate ideas and to better understand how things work. Using structured engineering design process, kids learn to brainstorm, build and test a prototype, and redesign. Projects include designing and building a set of pan pipes to experiment with pitch and volume in music. Creating prototypes is a key step in the engineering design process. While many will not work as planned, this is exactly how engineers learn and make improvements to their design. By trying and retrying, kids learn the value of persistence. 3-D Engineering empowers kids to discover the mechanics of the world we know.