The Engineering Innovation program offered by JHU was an exciting, college-level, summer program for other high school students with an aptitude and curiosity for engineering. During the three-credit college course, I completed activities in civil, chemical, electrical/computer, and mechanical engineering, and materials science. I dormed on campus during the month-long program and lived with other students from across the world.
Our final project was the classic spaghetti bridge which we prepared and tested during the final competition. As a group of four (pictured above), we drafted, calculated, prototyped, and constructed the "HydroBridge" which was a part of a running theme in our projects during the week. Below is a carousel of our calculations, constructions, and testing as well as our presentation at the bottom. Our bridge was able to hold a load of 8 kg which was higher than our predicted 6 kg, which placed us 10th in the competition out of the 40+ other teams.