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Spaghetti Bridges Served As Final Exam For High School Engineering Program At Hopkins
High school students enrolled in Johns Hopkins University's Engineering Innovation Summer Program get to work at the Montgomery County Campus.
A number of rising high school seniors are building bridges at Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus this week, but you won't find any steel.
Students from Montgomery County, Northern Virginia, Washington, DC, Kansas and New York are building spaghetti bridges as the final project for the school's summer Engineering Innovation Program.
Johns Hopkins University Director of Engineering Innovation Karen Borgsmiller oversees the program, which features four weeks of on campus learning, consisting of half lectures and half lab days.
The 44 students at the Montgomery County campus have participated in chemical engineering activities, electrical engineering activities, and mechanical engineering activities, Borgsmiller said.
But the science of engineering isn't the only thing Borgsmiller hopes to teach her students.
"Being a good engineer is bigger than being able to design a bridge or a car," she said. "They need to be able to communicate their ideas."
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