Creation Crates

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 Rose-Hulman Mechanical 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 Rose-Hulman Mechanical 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 Rose-Hulman spirit 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 virtual tour 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 28th through Friday, August 1st.
Online 4 hours per day working with Rose-Hulman Professors

Cost: $550.00

Application is now available.

Application deadline: Monday, April 7th, 2025

Apply to Creation Crates

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.

Watch the video to learn more!

Launch Branam Innovation Center - Rube Goldberg Project

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 Rose-Hulman experimental 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 Rose-Hulman faculty 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 Rose-Hulman faculty.

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 Rose-Hulman and take a virtual tour of campus.