Pack your suitcases for Challenge Island's® World Tour! You and a tribeful of friends will engineer your way around the globe - from the Eiffel tower to the Sydney Harbor bridge to the Taj Mahal to an African safari. Each challenge will bring you to a different international destination and provide a special CI taste of the local flavor there!

After you register, you will receive an email with the materials and Zoom login instructions. You will need to gather some supplies from around your house. Don't have something on the list? Get creative and use something similar! You don't need to leave your house for materials! 

If you were sent to us from West Bloomfield School District Community Education, enter code "WBSD" in the referral name box when registering. 

If you were sent to us from Hartland Community Education, enter code "HCE" in the referral name box when registering. 

If you were sent to us from Huron Valley Schools, enter code "HVS" in the referral name box when registering. 

Challenge Schedule:

May 6: Hot Air Balloon Lift-off

May 13: Paris, France Eiffel Tower

May 20: Antarctic Iceberg

May 27: African Animal Safari

June 3: Rio de Janeiro Maracana Stadium

June 10: Tel Aviv Water Pipeline

June 17: Sydney Harbor Bridge Building

Students will discuss the challenge faced by engineers in building Sydney Harbor Bridge and the importance of strengthening it. They'll discover that triangles are the “strongest” shape and why the Truss bridge design was used for the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Then we'll design and build our own bridges!

June 24: Washington, DC White House

July 1: Taj Mahal Monkey Playground