Year 12 Engineering

Engineering Studies - Spaghetti Bridge

The Year 12 Engineering Studies class have undertaken a challenge to design a bridge made out of spaghetti. There was a catch though, the bridge needed to be made using the least amount of materials while holding a 1kg weight for a time of 60 seconds.

This added complexity to the task and required students to consider the type of bridge design that they chose as well as the construction method used to ensure that the strength to weight ratio was the best in the class.

As you can see from the photos below the students all made very interesting designs. The lightest bridge was approximately 120g while the heaviest bridge was 375g.

During the testing two bridges managed to survive the initial design requirements, however, in the end the Year 12 students decided to test until destruction.

Congratulations to all students in the class, it was definitely a learning experience, while we all had some fun at the same time.