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STEM at the Library: Egg Drop Engineering Challenge

Presented by Science Connections

Calling all future NASA engineers! Can you complete the challenge: to protect your raw egg cargo from a 10-foot drop!! For 6-10 year olds. Space is limited. Register here!

Calling all future NASA engineers! Join Michelle Bertke of Science Connections to test out your design and construction skills. Learn how NASA engineers landed the most recent rover, Perseverance, on Mars in February 2021. Apply some of the same techniques they used to plan, build, and test out your very own creation. Can you complete the challenge: to protect your raw egg cargo from a 10-foot drop!!

Science Connections specializes in exploring STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) topics with hands-on activities that bring science alive. Each program and activity has been designed with Next Generation Science Standards in mind to ensure that it is not only fun but also educational. We will provide all of the materials for this program.

This program is part of the 11th annual Maryland STEM Festival, which runs from October 17 to November 16, 2025.

For 6-10 year olds

Space is limited. Register here!

Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Chevy Chase Library

Location: Chevy Chase Library Meeting Room (lower level)

Questions about this program? Contact the branch at 240-773-9590

If you are looking for something to do until this program, take a look at these resources for kids using your library card:

Don't have a card right now? No worries!  Find out how to Get a Library Card.

National Geographic Kids - Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children ages 6–14

Gale in Context: Elementary - Children's magazines and reference books

TumbleBooks - books that read themselves 

Kanopy Kids- videos and animated books

BookFlix - animated stories

Library Program Attendance (both virtual and in the branch) is limited to participants within the suggested age range of the program. Children attending an MCPL program under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Adults attending a program intended for children must have an accompanying child.

Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

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