About the CRE[AT]E Challenge

The Beaver Works CRE[AT]E Challenge is a community-driven, project-based engineering design course from MIT.

Teams of high school students work with local people with disability-related challenges to prototype solutions together, supported by Beaver Works staff and remote mentors.

Team coaches can register a team here, but please read this and the Getting Started page first!

Primary registration period is now over. Additional teams may be registered if you contact staff first.

Impact

For student teams:

“Participating in the CRE[AT]E Challenge has been an opportunity of a lifetime.”

“I learned so much in such a short period of time and this has been one of the most transformational experiences I’ve ever had.”

“The experience in the Challenge was amazing… This feels like my first step in the multitude of strides I hope to take to make an impact…”

For co-designers with disabilities:

Since 2022, 60 student teams have completed the CRE[AT]E Challenge, and nearly all have delivered working prototypes to their co-designers at the end.

Get Started

In the CRE[AT]E Challenge

• students take an online course about disability, assistive technology, and engineering design

• teams of 2-5 students, a coach, and one or more members of their community with a disability or other impairment to daily living (a co-designer) work together to prototype a solution for the co-designer