Three sheets of newspaper, one pair of scissors, 12 inches of tape and just 20 minutes to design, build and test a newsprint tower. This is the challenge that students in Amanda Smitkin’s Makers Lab at HomeLink were faced with. The class, made up of students in fourth- through eighth-grade, was broken into teams of two to complete this engineering design challenge. HomeLink is a parent partnership, public school option for students in kindergarten through eighth-grade. Located on the campus of Lake Stevens High School.