Growing up in New Zealand in the ’90s there was this incredible nationwide science & engineering program called the "BP Technology Challenge" I first did it when I was probably 9 or 10, and remember competing in versions of it all the way through mid/high school. Super simple format - teams of kids were given a challenge (without any real direction/instructions to solve it), a time limit, and a deliberately constrained set of materials: newspaper, tape, string, popsicle sticks, rubber…