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Looking for real-world experiences to make your college application and resume stand out? Challenges are competitions you can do on a team or solo—in school or out!—where big money's on the line just by helping solve a pressing industry or community problem with your real-life knohow.

Aerospace Engineering: Next-Gen Flight

How will we fly in 2050? Get ready for take-off into the exciting world of fu... More

Earns

+400 Points

Winner

$10000

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Daily Skillbuilders

10 minutes a Day. Earn Points & Skills.

Level-up your skills and career knowledge by creating TikTok videos, persuasive emails and more!

EngineeringProblem Solving

Fasten-ating

Effort: 10 minutesMost of the cabin was asleep when an Air India flight dropped 300 feet in a single jolt. The passengers with their belts on stayed in their seats. Fourteen who had unbuckled to sleep hit the ceiling, and the pilots radioed ahead so ambulances would be waiting on the runway. It keeps happening. Rough air is getting more common as the planet heats up, and a passenger died on a Singapore Airlines flight in 2024 when the plane fell the same way. Airlines have tried ending meal service early, and Korean Air stopped serving hot noodles so nobody gets burned. None of it fixes the real problem, which is that the seatbelt sign comes on, and a person who is warm under a blanket at 2 a.m. does not want to move. The companies that build airplane interiors, like Collins Aerospace, design everything from the seats to the overhead bins. An airline has just asked one of them for something new in the cabin that gets sleeping passengers buckled before the jolt, not after. Your Task: Imagine you are the cabin designer who got that request. 1. Why You Don't Be honest about the last time you skipped a safety thing, like a seatbelt in the back seat, a helmet, or a wet-floor sign. Say what it was and the real reason you skipped it. (2 to 3 sentences.) 2. Your Idea Invent one thing in the cabin that gets a sleepy passenger on a 14-hour flight to buckle before the jolt. It cannot be a louder announcement or a fine, and it has to be something a person half asleep under a blanket would actually go along with. Give it a name, say what the passenger notices, and say what the airline gives up to have it, whether that is money, comfort, or space. (4 to 5 sentences.) 3. Would It Work on You Go back to the reason you gave in step 1. Say honestly whether your idea would have worked on you that day, and what it would take to change your answer. (2 sentences.) Optional: add a drawing of your cabin idea if you want to and link to it. It is not required, and your writing has to make sense without it. Ready to try to win the big bucks? Try our newest KnoPro Challenge: Aerospace Engineering: Next-Gen Flight. More

Earns:
10 pointsAwarded:
(1) $100 e-gift card

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Real Estate, Real Impact: Build a REIT that Builds the Future

Real estate isn’t just about buying property; it’s about building the future. From affordabl...Learn more

4 weeks ChallengeEarns: +400pts

Problem SolvingCommunicationSocial Awareness

Awarded:
$5000

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