Brain Builders 2026:
The Chain Reaction Challenge

Unleash your student's inner engineer! This dynamic, hands-on STEM event is designed for upper elementary (3rd–5th grade) and middle school students. Throughout the day, participants will take part in a series of interactive challenges that build critical-thinking skills, enhance problem-solving abilities, and ignite creativity.

This year, we’re diving into Rube Goldberg Machines, the ultimate inventive engineering challenge! Students will explore how energy, gravity, motion, and simple machines trigger a complex cause-and-effect chain. Working in teams, they’ll design and build their own multi-step contraptions that roll, swing, and trigger, all to complete a fun final task.

Join us for a day of creative engineering, teamwork, and dynamic challenges that will leave students excited about the endless possibilities of STEM.

Not familiar with Rube Goldberg Machines? Click here to access the Rube Goldberg Institute for Innovation and Creativity where several student and adult examples are available.

We are excited to offer Brain Builders in three convenient locations
for upper elementary and middle school students this year.