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Bridge Building Workshop
Learn bridge engineering in classrooms
This workshop contains hands-on practical work to understand concepts in bridge engineering. It's one of our most popular workshops and covers various bridges, such as arch, beam, cantilever, suspension, and truss bridges. Students will also learn how load transfers occur in bridges and how to design a stable bridge.
Format
Primary: 3 sessions x 1 hr 30 mins
(30 participants per session)
Secondary/Higher: 5 sessions x 1 hr
(20 participants per session)
Age Groups
All Year Groups
Paper Bridges
Bridge Models
Truss Bridges
Day Itinerary*
Primary, Secondary and Higher
- Demo - We will start the day with a short demonstration to paper bridges. Students will learn how folding a paper can increase it's stiffness and ability to hold a heavier weight.
- Short Theory - We will briefly cover 7 different types of bridges (such as arch, beam and cantilever bridges) that exist in the real-world. Additionally, we will discuss how load transfer occusrs in some of these bridges.
- Practical and Demo - We will handout bridge modelling parts to students and build a basic Truss bridge. They will learn how trusses make a bridge stronger in the real world by observing load transfer with weights.
- Practical - Higher learners will be challenged to build their own bridge that meets a given specific engineering specification. Students may have to complete calculations as part of the building process. We will then test each of the bridges built by students.
* The activities may vary on the day depending on the length of the sessions and the age and ability of the participants.
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Cost
Please contact us to obtain a quote or request our price guide.
Testimonials
My favourite workshop.
The speaker was very enthusiastic and was able to answer loads of questions.
It was fun and engaging.
I like the problem solving aspect of this.
Students, Seaford College
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