As seen in the image above, the Spaghetti Bridge is a well known structural challenge. You might think structures are of particular concern for engineering students and not central to what we do in CoDe ... but structures, more broadly, are present in almost everything we do or in the ways we think about things. Bridges perfectly reflect the nature of what you'll most likely end up doing as graduates; bringing different disciplines together to solve complex problems.
Exercise
Use the notoriously weak spaghetti sticks and much stronger sellotape supplied to construct your own bridge that will be assessed in terms of beauty, strength and innovation (three words to live by!).
You might find the diagrams below a good way to get you thinking.
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