Novel Engineering

Explore Novel Engineering, where stories come to life and our engineering skills will help solve the problems some of our favorite book characters are facing! We’ll dive into captivating book adventures and then use our imagination and creativity to design hands-on solutions to the challenges the characters face. Then we’ll work with friends to design, build, and test engineering solutions for the characters' problems using simple materials. Whether it’s building a bridge to help a character cross a river or designing a new invention to make the story better, our ideas will bring the story to life in hands-on ways!  Did you take this last summer? Come on back—we’ll have new stories and some new materials to work with. (Novel Engineering is an approach originally developed by Tufts University to teach students the engineering process and link it to problems to fix, all through engaging literature.)