This symposium aims to highlight the impacts of climate change on the community at large and focus on solutions and actions that motivate and encourage the next generation of STEM professionals. The activities are designed to encourage critical thinking and promote solution design with nature in mind using following principles incorporated into engineering design principles:

• Nature uses a few themes to generate many variation
• Nature fits form to function
• Nature assembles itself into chains
• Nature recycles everything it uses
• Nature senses, responds, and adapts
• Nature rewards cooperation