Digital Smarts - Makeshift Solutions

Are you or someone in your family intrigued by the ingenuity of MacGyver (either the old television series or the new)? One great way to help rev up your kids’ digital thinking skills is to present them with sticky “MacGyver-like situations” and then ask them to engineer their way out of it. Check out some challenges on Make magazine online, who is re-running a series called “MakeShift”. The column, which ran for five years, presented challenging scenarios (such surviving a zombie attack) and asked readers to use their knowledge of science and engineering to come up with creative solutions. The challenges, as well as the submitted solutions (and the winners), will be posted weekly.