"Dyson engineers have designed these challenges specifically for children."<p>I'm certain that's not true.<p>Balloon cars, was a school thing at least a decade ago. Spaghetti bridges has been used in Scouting as a challenge for 30+ years that I know of.<p>The only one I've not seen before is cardboard boats, and I'd be amazed if that's novel.<p>I suspect it's more like: "a junior content producer for our social media found these in 20 mins".
It's taking a long time to load for me. The latest Archive link loads much faster:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200424011530/https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.com/resources/challenge-cards.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20200424011530/https://www.james...</a><p>They're interesting challenges, but I thought the idea of a challenge was to be challenging, ie. Can you figure out how to do it? The challenges give away the sollution straight away.
If you like those kinds of things, check out the tinkering studio page from the San Francisco Exploratorium. My wife works at a similar space in our local science museum (shut down now) and a lot of them are trying to see what they can do to get "virtual".
<a href="https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/projects" rel="nofollow">https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/projects</a>
The actual "Challenge Cards" that the videos reference can be downloaded here:
<a href="https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.com/content/dam/pdf/US%20challenge%20cards%20with%20cover.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.com/content/dam/pdf/US%20ch...</a>