Natali briefly mentioned that I was going to be leaving her for a few days for an engineering competition. I thought I would give everyone a little update on how that's going. We leave Wednesday evening for San Francisco. We got a couple of sponsors to donate money so we could fly out and compete in a seismic design competition. Even our 5 foot tower got a handicapped spot on the plane. Here is the gist of the competition: There are a whole bunch of rules but in a nutshell, what we are trying to do is build the best tower out of balsa wood that has the best use of floor space and best design against earthquakes. Scoring is based on design, floor space (square inches), presentation and performance against earthquakes. So we will take the tower, and they will put weights on it and put it on top of a shake table and see how it does. Here are just a few pictures of the building process and I will be sure to post pics of the competition this week. Wish us luck!
Wow dude that tower looks sick! San Fran will be cool I'm sure. Let us know-
ReplyDeleteWay cool son, it would be sooo awesome if your team WON!!! It looks good & strong, but this is your mother who doesn't know to much about engineering!We definately 'wish you luck'!
ReplyDeleteHave fun and hopefully there will not be a real earthquake to test it out while you're there!!
looks pretty intense brother! I hope you used the stongest glue out there cuz if that didn't hold-- uhhh O! But beng the smarty pants engineers that you are I'm sure you already thought of that!! May the siesmic forces be with you!
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