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STEM Showcase 2019

2020

GREAT WEST SOUND

BRIDGE CHALLENGE!


HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS:  Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to employ the engineering design process to construct an amazingly strong,light-weight, one-of-a-kind bridge. In order to do so, you’ll need to research, design, test, redesign, retest, and ultimately build a bridge that complies with all of the criteria and constraints outlined in the project guidelines . Then, on Saturday April 18, 2020, you’re invited to unveil and test your final bridge design at the Kitsap Mall during this year’s West Sound STEM Showcase!
​HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS:
(click to download)
Project Guidelines
Complete Guidelines 
Scoring Sheet

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS:  Project Guidelines (click to download)
A Hollywood movie producer needs your help to re-create a bridge a new Avengers movie. for Your challenge is to research, design, and build a bridge that can span a distance of 30cm and be a minimum of 6cm wide and 40cm long using ONLY materials listed in the Project Guidelines.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS:   Project Guidelines (click to download)
Your community needs to build a new bridge that can cross a local river without the use of any support pillars. The goal is to construct a bridge that does not disturb the river’s fish population in any way.
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