$5 General Admission
FREE for Members

Members will receive their discount by opting to sign in with their membership account during the checkout process and using their membership discount code.

Can you build a bridge out of pasta? Pasta comes in many shapes and sizes, including spaghetti, lasagna, macaroni, rotini, manicotti, linguini, and angel hair.  The variety of sizes and shapes makes pasta an ideal material for bridge building. 

In this activity, you are an engineer and your job is to use the engineering design process to come up with a solution...how to span a gap with a sturdy bridge. Starting with a problem in mind, engineers ask a lot of questions to better understand the problem and then brainstorm different solutions that they can explore to see how well they meet the requirements of the problem.  Because a bridge can be built in so many different ways, you must decide what design will work best. Next, you can start building. Once you have it built, you can test it to see if it meets the requirements of the problem.  As you test it, you might find you need to change the design...and keep doing this until your design solves the problem!

Class is at 10:15 am

**NOTE: This is the same topic/class as the JAM Session on Thursday, September 4th**

PLEASE NOTE:

• We require a 24 hour cancellation notice for Little Explorers Club and JAM Sessions reservations via emailing info@visitthemap.org. Please include the name on the reservation, number of students, date and time of the class.

• Please help create an outstanding learning environment by limiting disruptions in the classroom! 

• Parents are, of course, always welcome to remain in class but should a parent choose to step out, we have provided a seating area just outside the classrooms. Parents and siblings are also welcome to explore our Discovery Room or the rest of the Museum until the class concludes.