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Fall 2025 Challenge
How can you design a water wise irrigation system? In areas with sloped farmland, gravity plays a major role in how water moves, making the design of irrigation systems critical to both crop success and environmental stewardship.
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Through this challenge, students will become more aware of the important role pollinators play in our daily lives and how to help protect the various populations.
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Fall 2024 Challenge
With the challenge of losing over 3 billion tons of fertile topsoil each year, your team has been selected to design a prototype and construct a system that will reduce topsoil erosion.
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Spring 2022 Challenge
We need food to survive. But food security is a problem around the world, and at home. Get creative as you design a sustainable living environment for aquatic life while growing food in this Purple Plow Challenge!
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Spring 2024 Challenge
Students will learn about various types of waste products and develop a solution that finds a creative way of transforming it into a useful product.
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Spring 2023 Challenge
When rain falls or snow melts, it does not simply stay in one place or seep into the ground to replenish groundwater; most of it begins to move. In this challenge, students will learn about the impact of runoff in rural and urban areas and its effects on the environment as well as plan for solutions to this growing issue of dead zones, hypoxia, and overall water quality.
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Fall 2023 Challenge
Agriculture consumes large amounts of energy in the production of our food. In this challenge, students will learn about energy and they will design, build and share a solution that diversifies energy consumption.
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Fall 2023 Challenge
Construct a model of a cattle ranch that balances production with economic, environmental, and societal needs.
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Spring 2018 Challenge
Americans enjoy an affordable and abundant food supply thanks to farming and ranching families. Learn the story behind our food firsthand by designing a farm-to-food truck!
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Spring 2023 Challenge
Get a team together and design, build, and utilize a growing structure that can be used in your unique location or situation to help maximize the availability and access to food.
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Spring 2025 Challenge
Often, we think of individuals that are living with food insecurity to be homeless or easy to identify, yet they could be your neighbor or even a classmate. Are you ready to help solve this problem?
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