Building bridges at Palouse

Budding engineers in Phil Weagraff’s engineering class at the Garfield Palouse Middle School spent the second quarter designing and building bridges.

The seventh and eighth graders tried a wide variety of designs, some focusing on strength, while others on aesthetics.

The students began by designing and constructing model bridges out of balsa wood.

They then moved to designs using spaghetti noodles, and the class will complete the quarter by building towers out of either balsa wood or spaghetti noodles.

This is the second year the middle school has offered this course and will continue next year.

Pictured are students Mitch Jamison, McKenzie McClanahan and Libby Aiken displaying some of the bridges built by the GPMS Engineering Class.