Ping Pong-a-Thon Engineering Challenge

Get your students excited about STEM with this fun, hands-on engineering design challenge!

In the Ping Pong-a-Thon Engineering Challenge, students work through the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and improve a solution to an engaging real-world problem. It's the perfect way to introduce engineering concepts while encouraging creativity, teamwork, communication, and critical thinking.

Designed by an educator with 25 years of classroom experience, this ready-to-use activity requires minimal preparation and is easy to implement in your classroom.

This Resource Includes:

• Complete teacher instructions
• Student challenge sheets
• Engineering design planning pages
• Reflection questions
• Easy-to-follow classroom implementation

Perfect For:

• Elementary classrooms (Grades 3–5)
• STEM & STEAM lessons
• Engineering units
• Makerspaces
• Gifted & talented programs
• Homeschool educators

Whether you're introducing STEM for the first time or looking for a fresh classroom activity, this challenge provides an engaging experience your students will enjoy while practicing essential problem-solving skills.

If you enjoy this challenge, be sure to check out the Engineering Challenge Starter Pack, which includes three additional ready-to-use engineering challenges, and the 40-Minute STEM Challenge Framework for a complete system to make planning and teaching STEM easier all year long.