ESTEAM® Design Challenge Kits

Step-by-Step Adventures in Prototyping and Creative Problem-Solving

Unlock Confidence, Creativity, and Courage with the ESTEAM® Design Challenge Kit

This hands-on kit equips students with entrepreneurial thinking skills that spark problem-solving, build resilience, and prepare them to tackle challenges with confidence.

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Small Challenges that Spark Big Ideas!

A group of high school girls pitching their ideas using the ESTEAM Design Challenge Kit

Empowering

Students are guided by a mindset word

Inventive

Youth open a prototyping bag and start brainstorming and problem-solving

Reflective

Students pitch their ideas and reflect on the mindsets they practiced

What Our Participants Say

  • “The ESTEAM kit is something that I can open up, read over the outline real quick, and know what we’re doing. Phenomenal. It’s so easy, and my students love it.”
    Lauren Holverson
    Business Educator
  • “I got to be creative, to
    believe in myself, and to
    work with others.”
    VentureLab Participant
  • “If [the students] see [some]one being negative, they’ll redirect them back to the word of the day. I’ve been seeing them do that a whole lot.”
    Miss Ashley
    Educator at New Avenue Inc.

Simple Tools that Inspire Bold Teaching

All-In-One

Instructors open a kit that has all materials and an easy-to-use session outline

Flexible Time

The activity duration is 30 mins to 2+ hours, with the use of extensions

Structured

Educators follow the design thinking steps and encourage students

2 male high school students creating prototypes with the ESTEAM Design Challenge Kit

What’s Inside Each Box?

  • 1 Entrepreneurial Activity
  • 1 set of 15 pre-made bags with physical materials
(tape, pipe cleaners, notecards, foil, paperclips, craft sticks)
  • Facilitator Guide
  • 4 Extension Activities
  • 12 Mindset Posters
  • Serves up to 30 students
  • 30 mins to 2+ hours of programming
CHOOSE YOUR CHALLENGE
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2025 ESTEAM® Design Challenges

Students working together on a design challenge kit

Game Business

Design and prototype a game while exploring entrepreneurship.

A girl displaying her idea for a Family pet Design Challenge

Family Pet

Create innovative solutions to care for a new pet.

A group of students discussing a School of the Future for a design challenge

School of the Future

Reimagine classrooms and design the learning spaces of tomorrow.

Boy working on a mental health project for ESTEAM Design Challenge

Mental Health

Develop creative tools that support well-being and empathy.

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What Our Participants Say

  • “The ESTEAM kit is something that I can open up, read over the outline real quick, and know what we’re doing. Phenomenal. It’s so easy, and my students love it.”
    Lauren Holverson
    Business Educator
  • “I got to be creative, to
    believe in myself, and to
    work with others.”
    VentureLab Participant
  • “If [the students] see [some]one being negative, they’ll redirect them back to the word of the day. I’ve been seeing them do that a whole lot.”
    Miss Ashley
    Educator at New Avenue Inc.

Frequently Asked Questions

One kit costs $100. Four kits can be purchased in a bundle for $300. Each kit has materials to serve a minimum of 15 students. We recommend group work (Remember that entrepreneurs don’t work alone!) which can serve 30 students.

An instructor page, 15 student pages, and prototyping materials. Your first kit includes classroom material (mindset posters and mindset card deck).

The ESTEAM® Design Challenge is 30 to 60 minutes. Extension can add 15 minutes to 2 hours, depending on how many, which ones, and how you implement them.

Yes. Each kit is made for either Elementary (grades 1-5) students or Secondary (grades 6-12) students. You can purchase kits for each age group and give them the activity simultaneously.

You have the option to complete multiple design challenges. This builds creative fluency. You have many options to have students take their ideas to the next level with VentureLab Idea to Pitch Program or Spark Mentorship Program.

Looking Forward To More Challenges?

2026 ESTEAM® Design Challenges Coming Soon!