The Tufts Buildable Bridges Project strives to bridge the gap between middle to high school students and engineering. By bringing opportunities for grade-school students to engage with civil engineering ideas, the Buildable Bridges Project hopes to mitigate the disconnect of collegiate engineering and the aura of implausible difficulty.

Through constructible models that mirror the impressiveness of full scale models, students can participate in fun activities that challenge them to build a variety of types of bridges in-person. In doing so, they get to witness how the bridges they use are constructed first hand, while also being introduced to laws of physics that are present in the statics of structural engineering.

Through hands-on activities that replicate the structural as well as creative aspects of bridge engineering, we hope to inspire students to push themselves to be a part of the discipline earlier in their academic career; and hopefully in turn, sparking the curiosity and vigor that will create impressive and innovating future engineers.