Zooming in on Infrastructure - Episode 1: Bring Your Own Balsa (BYOB)

June 19, 2020
In this, the debut episode of Roads & Bridges Media's ongoing video series Zooming in on Infrastructure, we talk with a team of high school students from Chesapeake Chesapeake Science Point High School in Hanover, Maryland, who entered into AASHTO's Student TRAC Bridge Contest.

In the debut episode of Roads & Bridges Media's ongoing video series Zooming in on Infrastructure, we talk with a team of high school students from Chesapeake Science Point High School in Hanover, Maryland, who entered into AASHTO's Student TRAC Bridge Contest.

The challenge: To use 3-D modeling software to design a sustainable, geometrically sound bridge model and then to build it.

Our discussion includes team members Sarah Vo, Rafee Mirza, and Dhruva Kothari and their advisor, Ashish Vadalia. 

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