PEO Mississauga Chapter Bridge Building Challenge

Sat Nov 23 2024 at 09:00 am to 03:00 pm UTC-05:00

Tomken Road Middle School, North Building | Mississauga

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Bridge Building Challenge
About this Event

PEO Mississauga Chapter is very excited to announce that our annual middle school students Bridge Building Challenge will be held on Saturday, November 23, 2024. Please encourage your middle school students to join the challenge to develop their design, construction, creative skills, teamwork, and public presentation/speaking. This event is our opportunity as engineers to get students interested in the profession.

This challenge is open to students currently enrolled in grades 6, 7, and 8 at a school located in Mississauga and neighboring areas. Building materials and instructions will be provided after the registration is closed.

The top three teams from each grade will be awarded.

Tentative Schedule:

Please notice that this event include two sessions (Information/Tutorial Session and Challenge Session):

Information/Tutorial Session: On October 16, 2024 from 6:00PM to 8:00PM: Registered students need to come to Tomken Road Middle school (3200 Tomken Road, Mississauga, ON L4W 1J9) to join a bridge building tutorial/information session and pick up the kits. We will have some experts there to explain the structural engineering concepts and the bridge building basics.

Challenge Session: On Saturday, November 23, 2024 from 8:30 am to about 3:00 pm (Please notice that each student could be staying in the event for about 2 to 3 hours during this time frame, the tentative schedule is as follows, and a detailed group presentation time schedule will be emailed to you after the registration is closed)

Tentative schedule of Challenge Session on November 23, 2024 (time may vary depending on the number of registrants):

8:45 AM to 11:30 AM – Grade 6 students

10:00 AM to 1:00 PM- Grade 7 students

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM- Grade 8 students

Pizza Lunchtime: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Venue: Tomken middle school north building, 3200 Tomken Road, Mississauga, ON L4W 1J9

Registration fee: $10 per team (includes pizza lunch and the building materials). Each team should have two students from the same grade.

Registration Website: https://bridgebuiling2024.eventbrite.ca

Registration closes: Registration open until Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, at 12:00PM OR when a maximum of 50 teams have registered. Due to popularity of this event we recommend you register early to secure your spot.

Contact: Patrick Pagtakhan, P.Eng. or Balaji Gollapalli, P.Eng.

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

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Tomken Road Middle School, North Building, 3200 Tomken Road, Mississauga, Canada

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