Students to Test 'Tsunami Shelters'
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 15:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Their tsunami shelters are only made out of small wooden blocks and held together by toothpaste used for glue, but they also incorporate months of study with computer-aided design, learning about engineering principles, applying skills to real world problems and the simple ingenuity of hundreds of middle school students from Oregon coastal and rural areas.
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