Hello, Reader! Lovely day’ innit. I hope you like my title, personally I found it funny because it actually relates to my experience building a Straw Tower! Crazy, right? Well it was chaotic.
For the next 6 weeks on Wednesday’s, we’ll be focusing on Engineering. This week on Wednesday, we found an interest in civil engineering—our topic this week of engineering. The three classes who took part in the engineering were; Room 10, 9 and 2. (Just the senior students) Then, all three classes were brought into the hall and were met with two civil engineers along with three construction engineers.
As our classes settle into four rows, one of the engineers introduces herself and shows us to each station with different things present on the tables our rows will be looking at. There was a station focusing on making paper towers, the one I did were straw towers, another station worked on a decent sized bridge, then the last station at the end of the hall were using bamboo to make a bridge Da Vinci style 🔥.
My row was brought to the straw tower station, met with five tables. There are supposed to be three people on each table but I’m assuming there were way too many people to split into three that’ll fit in five tables, so some groups had more than three— not mine though.
On the tables were straws, scissors and a limited amount of blue duct tape. Our goal was to make a tower sturdy enough to hold two ping pong balls 12 inches (30 cm) away from the table. We sat through watching a video talking about the challenge and there were rules; no taping the ping pong balls in ANY way and the tower has to be freestanding. Each table had limited straws as well, we had to use 20. My group made a pyramid, we used and taped straws to make a square for our tower to stand, then taped straws on each corner extending out. We gathered all four straws found on each corner to the middle and taped them to make a pyramid — then proceeded to cut in half and tape two other straws on each side, then for its other half to extend onto that half for the ping pong balls to sit on. Our tower wasn’t 30 cm tall, I’m pretty sure we were like… 8 cm off? That’s what I estimated. In the end, we succeeded! We finished our objective and managed to hold two ping pong balls.
That’s all for today, thank you for reading! If you have any questions or liked anything about my post, inform me in the comments! Bye!