As part of National Manufacturing Day, The STEM Workshop has created a range of challenges to help you engage with some of the key skills we explore across Engineering and Manufacturing.

Attached are a set of step by step guides, with accompanying videos, to assist you with the following challenges:

 

Challenge 1:
To design and make a working mechanism to lift a 100 gram weight vertically.

 

Challenge 2:
To design and make a marble run to keep the marble moving for as long as possible.

 

Challenge 3:
To design and make a mechanical device that will lift and move a heavy weight up to 1kg.

 

Challenge 4:
To design a mechanical system to move a ball vertically at least 200mm and horizontally 200mm. You can incorporate any mechanism you want in order to move the ball effectively.