Pasta Bridge Buildidng Project Awards

Hi Berkshire MakerKids Parents and Friends

Early in April, we did a great project that made use of dried pasta as the primary material and a glue gun as the main tool. The objective was to make a bridge designed to support weight as the demonstration of its structural integrity. Once the bridges were all built, we tested them one at a time with weight – starting with small amounts applied to the bridge, and added weight incrementally until the bridge collapsed. The point was the more weight the bridge could support was a demonstration of its design efficiency. It was really fun and we learned a lot about how to combine pasta sticks for maximum structural integrity.

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Here is a video from an upper school class at another school that shows what building this kind of project is like. Check it out!

And here are two of our winners from the MakerKids Bridge Project Competition. 

Great work by the winners, and by everyone!