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Teamworks! Building for the Extreme: DAIS G5 Takes on the MIT Challenge

Over the last few weeks, students from DAIS-E participated in the first two MIT Challenges of the year. Through the Nord Anglia–MIT collaboration, MIT scientists and professors release a series of three challenges each year to students all over the world in the Nord Anglia network, inviting them to design creative solutions to real-world problems currently being explored in MIT labs. Our 5th grade students took on the second challenge: Teamworks! Building for the Extreme… Space and Beyond. For this challenge, Associate Professor Skylar Tibbits, a designer and computer scientist in MIT's Department of Architecture, invited students to design a structure or system capable of adapting to an extreme environment, whether in space, on the Moon or Mars, underwater, or in harsh regions here on Earth such as deserts or polar areas. Professor Tibbits is the founder and co-director of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab, where his research focuses on self-assembly and programmable materials within the built environment. Inspired by his work, our 5th graders eagerly embraced the challenge, designing surface habitats for the exoplanets of their choice, using research, creativity, and engineering thinking to guide their decisions.