Participants aged 11–16 take on a real structural engineering challenge: design and build a model house that survives an earthquake. Working in teams with a fixed materials budget, they’ll make genuine trade-offs and test their thinking against one visceral, no-ambiguity moment — the shake test.
The session follows a full design cycle: research, build, critique, rebuild, final test. Peer feedback is part of the process. So is watching your structure either hold firm or spectacularly collapse.
For teenagers who want to think seriously and build boldly.