Real World Design Challenge Scholarships

The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) is an annual competition that provides high school students, grades 9-12, the opportunity to work on real world engineering challenges in a team environment. Each year, student teams will be asked to address a challenge that confronts our nation's leading industries. Students will utilize professional engineering software to develop their solutions and will also generate presentations that convincingly demonstrate the value of their solutions. The RWDC provides students with opportunities to apply the lessons of the classroom to the technical problems that are being faced in the workplace.

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.