Casa Natal Picasso · Round Rock ISD · Texas

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art → engineering

The world's first Picasso-inspired STEAM challenge: K-12 students move from canvas to lab to design, build and compete with real vehicles, robots and aircraft.

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// reach

Students reachable

// modules

Learning modules

// tracks

Challenge areas

// nations

Countries collaborating

// what it is

A bridge between Picasso's birthplace and innovation-driven Texas.

The Casa Natal Picasso STEAM Challenge unites Picasso's artistic legacy -born in Málaga- with the engineering, robotics and creative ambition of Round Rock, Texas students. It's not just another subject: it's a full program that takes students from idea to prototype, and from classroom to competition.

Art that activates, creativity and confidence as the foundation of innovative thinking.
Hands-on engineering, real design, prototyping and fabrication, not theory.
From classroom to competition, a tournament connecting schools, families and companies.

// the vision behind the challenge

Why the Casa Natal Picasso STEAM Challenge matters.

It is not only a competition: it is a transatlantic experience that introduces students to creative problem-solving, visual identity, prototyping and global collaboration.

Art + STEM integration

Picasso becomes the visual and conceptual spark for engineering challenges, bridging creativity and technical innovation like no other program.

District leadership

Round Rock ISD leads a signature educational model with local and international visibility, a flagship for the future of STEAM in Texas.

Future-ready skills

Teamwork, design, communication, fabrication and systems thinking: exactly the skills demanded by the innovation economy.

// the concept, where art becomes engineering

The same gesture: deconstruct to create.

Picasso broke reality into planes, edges and geometry, exactly what an engineer does before building. That bridge, from painting to prototype, is the heart of the challenge: students learn to see like artists and solve like engineers.

// creative problem-solving · prototyping · global collaboration

Where art meets engineering

// the project in 30 seconds

See what it is, in one video.

// how it works

From the painting to the prototype, in five phases.

Inspiration

Cubist deconstruction as a design method.

Design

They sketch their vehicle, robot or aircraft.

Build

They build and program the prototype.

Compete

They compete by area and age.

Showcase

They present at a Málaga ⇄ Texas event.

// challenge areas

Three challenges where design becomes machine.

Each area takes students from artistic concept to competing prototype, with real, age-based, STEAM-aligned curriculum.

TRACK_01

AutoSTEM

elementary · middle school

From the toy car to the F1-inspired single-seater: motion physics, aerodynamics, design and speed.

TRACK_02

RoboSTEM

k-12

Mobile robotics with TETRIX MAX: sensors, programming and iteration. Build, test and compete.

TRACK_03

AeroSTEM

k-12

Aeronautics and space: aerodynamics, materials and flight design. Engineering that takes off.

See the challenge areas →

// why it matters

We build the talent the future will need.

Texas' tech sector demands STEAM profiles. This program builds that pipeline from the ground up: creativity, teamwork, fabrication and systems thinking, the competencies of the innovation economy.

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// learning platform

Enter the STEAM campus.

Courses, robotics and real-world challenges in one place. From classrooms to competitions: teachers and students access curriculum, labs and certificates on the STEM platform.

Enter the platform ↗ How it works for schools

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