OSU 4-H STEM

Ohio 4-H STEM in Agriculture Tent and Mobile Design Lab: Hands-on engagement to explore careers in agriculture while participating in real-world challenges. 2026 Ohio 4-H STEM in Ag Challenges include: • Ag Bot Animal Challenge: Create a livestock corral design to safely move the animal bots through. • Agriculture Connections to Cosmetics Challenge: Create lip balm using various agriculture products. • Animal By-Products Challenge: Create a cowhide keychain while exploring the world of animal by-products. • Break the Agriculture Coding Challenge: Learn basic coding applications in agriculture with Swift Playgrounds. • Bridge Challenge: Engineer a freestanding bridge and test the bridge’s weight limit. • Culinary Science Challenge: Create a cake in a mug to meet a food sensitivity. • Dairy Foods Science Challenge: Investigate making ice cream with liquid nitrogen. • From Farm to Label Challenge: Design a label for an agricultural product using the Freeform app. • Hempcrete Challenge: Construct a bio-composite building block. • Livestock Surveillance Robotics Challenge: Code the Sphero to survey the herd using line following robotics. • Space Ag 2100: Engineer a greenhouse tower to maximize food production in space that withstands quakes. • Space Ag Voyage 2100: Explore building and flying rockets with Spaceflight Simulator app. • Sphero Planter Challenge: Engineer a soybean planter and test your design with the autonomous tractor “Sphero”. • Stream Quality Challenge: Rate stream health based on macroinvertebrate sampling. • Water Filtration Challenge: Design a water filter to remove contaminates from a water sample.