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Engineer’s Week: Bridge Building Competition Winner

EngineersWeekLogo2014-mediumWe had a fantastic day at the Science Gallery with over 50 people taking part in our  competition. We had a great talk from Anthony McGuinness about Dublin City Council‘s Bridges of Dublin project. Next up was Robert Dowdall and Colin Keogh from IMechE explaining the engineering concepts behind bridge design. Their talk certainly made an impact . We had all sorts of different shapes  , sizes and designs of bridges. Check out our gallery for photos from the event. -> photos

Design Winner

This team of beavers and cubs from Donabate scout group won the Best Design Prize.
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Weight Winner

This winning team created a bridge that held 41kg with no sign of breaking. The team took the bridge home with a plan to see what the maximum weight it could take.
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The second place bridge held a weight of 40kg. The third place bridge Frack’n’bridge held a weight of 28kg.

 

This event was only made possible with the time given by our volunteers and support from the following organisation TOG, Science Gallery, Engineers Ireland, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Young Engineers Society and Dublin City Council.

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Going to Maker Faire UK

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We have been accepted to Maker Faire UK in April. We have a host of new projects in the works for the largest Maker Faire in the UK. We always look forward to meeting new makers and the public at the event but most of all catching up with our friends from hackerspaces across the UK.

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Engineer’s Week: Bridge Building Competition

 

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We bring our annual bridge building competition back to the Science Gallery for Engineers Week.

This is a family-friendly competition that puts teams against one another to build the strongest bridge. Engineering theory and building materials will be provided to help you during construction.  Last year’s winning  team from Canada, created a bridge that held over 20kg’s.  Some photos of the event can be found in our gallery. 

A secret prize will be up for grabs for the winners. The competition will have a half an hour of short talks, an hour and a half building and half an hour of judging.

Date: Saturday 8th February

Time: 14.00 – 16.30

Location: Science Gallery

Cost: Free

Sign Up: send an email to events2014@tog.ie

 

We are now booked out. Please keep an eye out for our night of engineering talks or check out  other Engineer’s Week events.

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Book Club January

TOG’s book club is back in full swing. The next meet up is January 17th 7pm.

The book we are reading at the moment is Old Man’s War by John Scalzi.

The book was available in a free ebook from the tor.com (if you signed up to their newsletter). Hopefully you were lucky enough to grab a copy, otherwise there are ebook versions available for as little as €1.99. We checked, there’s also an audio book available.

(There are tools available to help you find the best deal, for example Luzme for UK.)