The North Carolina Department of Transportation invites all North Carolina middle and high schools to participate in its 16th annual Model Bridge Building Competition. The contest is designed to give students a hands-on opportunity to apply their science, technology, engineering and math skills to a real-world scenario.
Franklin Academy High School in Wake Forest and Polk County Middle School in Mills Springs were the big winners in last year’s competition. For a downloadable PDF of all 2008 – 2014 Model Bridge Building Competition, click here.
NCDOT began the NCDOT Statewide Model Bridge Building Competition in the spring of 2000, along with the agency’s industry partners, the Carolinas’ Associated General Contractors (AGC) and the American Council of Engineering Companies of North Carolina.
The agency says that members from each of the organizations serve as judges at each of the regional and final competitions.
“The goal of the competition is to hone student’s math and science skills,” Gail Herring, program coordinator with NCDOT, says in a written statement. “Hopefully it will encourage them to choose the transportation industry as a career.”
