Overview
With the help of our expert partners, we’re giving students the chance to dream, design and build something better for the next century. Helping kids get excited about technology and engineering today means more innovations, history-making ideas, and inventions that will change the world in the future.
Curiosity Machine
Iridescent and Boeing engineers created more than 20 hands-on design challenges that encourage curiosity, creativity and persistence. In these activities, students turn low-cost household materials into innovative engineering solutions. Along the way, they can reach out to engineering mentors for guidance and insights.
PBS Learning Media
The Documentary Group and WGBH present a collection of digital classroom resources that span a century of flight innovation. Covering aerospace innovation and engineering careers, these tools bring science to life with teaching tips, background essays, and more. This special collection is available on PBS LearningMedia, which offers K-12 classrooms a flexible way to integrate media into daily instruction.
Teaching Channel
Teaching Channel is a thriving online community where educators can learn and share diverse techniques to help their students grow. Through grant support and partnership with Boeing, teachers and company engineers worked together create 10 science units for grades 4-8 informed by globally competitive education standards.
Above and Beyond
Above and Beyond is a traveling aerospace exhibition that celebrates how dreams take flight. Visitors experience the thrill of flight by virtually testing their own supersonic jet, piloting a drone into the eye of a hurricane, and taking an elevator ride to the edge of space. Teacher guides help educators plan field trips and integrate Above and Beyond into classroom instruction. The exhibition is developed in collaboration with NASA and Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.