Creation Crates | Rose-Hulman

Design and Create Your Own Engineering Experiments at Home!

Want to gain the skills to design a knock-out science fair project?

Completing the Creation Crates program will illuminate the potential for experiments in everything you do. Inspired by a �鶹��ýMechanical Engineering course, Creation Crates is your opportunity to design your own engineering experiments at home!

With a kit of materials delivered to your doorstep, you will work directly with a �鶹��ýMechanical Engineering faculty mentor to design, build, and test a series of experimental apparatuses, use your setup to take experimental measurements, and analyze the trustworthiness of your results.

Consistent with the �鶹��ýspirit of community and support, Creation Crates students will help each other to navigate the challenging but rewarding features of experimental design. You will also learn about life at Rose-Hulman by getting to know a current student and taking a of the campus.

Creation Crates is open to high school students who have completed their sophomore or junior years.

Creation Crates COST & Dates

Dates: Monday, July 27th through Friday, July 31st.
Online 4 hours per day working with �鶹��ýProfessors

Cost: $550.00

Application deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

Kayla Guyer
Creation Crates participant

Working with a professor was really great. She made sure I had all my experiments done and that I knew what I was doing – and that if I didn’t, I could ask questions.

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Aimee Cloutier, PhD
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Before high school students choose a college major, it’s really important for them to have a little bit of experience in a lot of different areas to figure out what really resonates with them – and what doesn’t.

Alisha Mastakar works on a Creation Crates project.

Creation Crates is the �鶹��ýexperimental engineering design-at-home program for high school students.

One design students create is a trifilar pendulum to hold different objects and then calculate the moment of inertia.

Austin Perry calculates the flexibility of a wood beam the force needed to break it.

Students calculate the flexibility of a wood beam and the force needed to break it.

Austin Perry works on a Creation Crates project.

Creation Crates allows students to explore different types of engineering design projects.

Students receive a kit of materials delivered to their doorstep and work directly with a �鶹��ýfaculty mentor during the program.

Cassie Meyer works with a faculty mentor virtually on a Creation Crates project.

Even in a virtual setting, students receive individual attention and support from �鶹��ýfaculty.

Math calculations on paper for a Creation Crates project.

A key focus of Creation Crates is helping students calculate uncertainty and confidence levels in their measurements for different experiments.

Kayla Guyer builds a motor from her Creation Crates kit.

Students use the Creation Crates kit to build a motor and calculate the amount of power it uses.

Katie Collins works on a Creation Crates project.

Creation Crates cohorts work independently and together virtually on experimental design projects.

In addition to working on various engineering experiments, Creation Crates participants meet with a current student to learn about life at �鶹��ýand take a virtual tour of campus.

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Director of Pre-College Outreach
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