1. Hexbug Design Challenge
Ultimate Maze Competition
To enter, we need to design a maze that meets the following criteria:
The maze has to be at least 12 inches long.
The maze must include 2 corners.
Hexbug needs to:
Travel from start to finish without escaping or being touched
Make a noise while going through the maze.
Meet the Hexbug Nano.
1 – Introduce problem
Before you start working on the challenge, I want you to get a chance to play with the hexbugs and see how they move and act. I will give you just a few mins to play with them (INTRO how to turn them on and off)

2. Materials Budget Limited to 5 items: You also get:
Can be more than one of each material
Ex: 3 aluminum foil sheets and 2 foam sheets
You also get:
12 inches of tape
Scissors
Materials
Amount
Aluminum foil
6” x 6”
Copy Paper (half sheet)
8.5” x 5.5”
Construction paper (half)
9” x 6”
Craft Sticks
Set of 5
Foam sheet
Pipe cleaners
Set of 2
Yarn
12 in
In order to build your maze, you will have access to the following materials and a budget/limit of 5 items and 12 inches of tape

3. Let’s explore Send one person from your group to get:
Hexbug
A bag of samples of each material
Keep the challenge in mind!
This hits on the testing, not sure if we want to keep this or get rid of this… as testing the materials would be something that would make it a better engineering lesson?

4. Let’s Build our Designs
Limited to 5 items:
Free: 12 inches of tape
Scissors
CRITERIA:
The maze has to be at least 12 inches long
The maze has to have 2 corners
Hexbug needs to:
Travel from start to finish without escaping or being touched
Make a noise while traveling through the maze.
Materials
Amount
Aluminum foil
6” x 6”
Copy Paper (half sheet)
8.5” x 5.5”
Construction paper (half)
9” x 6”
Craft Sticks
Set of 5
Foam sheet
Legos (limit 2)
Bag of assorted
Pipe cleaners
Set of 2
Yarn
12 in
In order to build your maze, you will have access to the following materials and a budget/limit of 5 items and 12 inches of tape

5. Testing our mazes We will now test as a group!
Complete your checklist after you have tested your maze.