Get involved with the RWDC
Register a Team
To register your teams fill out the form by clicking the link below. Teams are made up of 3-7 students in grades 9-12. Each team needs a coach who is a teacher or other adult to help organize the team and act as the point of contact for the team. You may change or add team members through the registration period as needed. Coaches may have as many teams as they want but students may only be on one team.
Once you register a team follow the steps below for to get started on the challenge.
Become a Mentor or Judge
The Real World Design Challenge Depends on volunteers to help Judge the teams and mentor the students. Get involved and register to be a judge or mentor below.
Steps for competing in the Challenge
Step 1: Review materials on the Getting Started Page To find important resources
The Getting Started page has a lot of important resources for teams. It will give you important information on the challenge and where to find resources you may need.
Step 2: Review the Challenge Materials
It is important to review the materials for the challenge.
Step 3: Work on the Challenge
Ultimately you will need to prepare and submit an Engineering Design Notebook. Teams of judges will evaluate your work based on what you submit in your Engineering Design Notebook. Your team should look through the Scoring Rubric and begin to do research to design a system to address the questions posed in the Scoring Rubric. The headings in the Scoring Rubric should be used as the headings in your Engineering Design Notebook. Fill in sections of the Engineering Design Notebook as you complete the work in each section. On the getting started page you will also find software, webinars, and a survey.
Step 4 Submit your solution by the deadline
You should turn your Engineering Design Notebook to your State Coordinator and to Jeff Coppola (jeffcoppola@gmail.com).
We are providing $50,000 scholarships from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to each student on the International Champion team. *
*This scholarship can only be awarded to each student once. If a student is on a champion team more than once they would only receive the 50,000 once.