Meeting #3 at KPFF

Just a reminder that our next meeting is tomorrow at KPFF Consulting Engineers.

Tuesday December 1, 2009
4-6 pm
The address is 1601 5th Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101.

The link to the flyer handed out at the last meeting is available below:
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0BzLGAHEMf1oXM2I2OWY2ZjQtYTY0MS00OTI1LTg4ZDItZGRkMmRjMzFiNGFk&hl=en

See you tomorrow!
Julie

Apprenticeships in the trades

If you're curious about apprenticeships in the trades, here is their new website, that has been easier to obtain than hard copy materials for distribution.
http://www.exploreapprenticeship.wa.gov/construction.htm

PROJECT TYPE IDEAS

Here is the list of suggestions you came up with after our first meeting. Your homework was to research the project type you were most interested...examples of images, ideas, sketches to help express why you think that project type should be our focus for the remainder of the year!!
You DO NOT have to choose from this list at this point....these are just suggestions from your classmates:

• High School
• Underwater Hotel/Casino
• Teen Club/Recreational Facility
• Gameworks style arcade
• Sports Stadium
• Boxing Arena
• Prison
• Doctors/Veterinary Office
• Chocolate Factory
• Hotel w/ Water Theme Park
• Skyscraper w/ Sky bridge
• EMP 2
• Bigger Better Space Needle
• Nike Building (retail store/corporate headquarters)
• Floating Building
• Airport
• Vault

Sketch Up Download

To down load sketch up go to: http://sketchup.google.com/download/
Never used sketchup before? Here are some tip videos from their website to help you learn! http://sketchup.google.com/training/videos/new_to_gsu.html

Spaghetti Bridge Building Contest @ Nathan Hale High School

Nathan Hale High School Physics Classes welcome you to participate in our first annual spaghetti bridge building competition that is modeled after a spaghetti bridge competition conducted each year at Okanogan College in Kelowna, BC.At Hale, constructing spaghetti bridges allows us to apply our understanding of forces and Newton’s Laws in a fun and interesting way. We hope that you will join us by constructing bridges and entering our competition. The contest will start with the breaking of previously constructed bridges and will be followed with a 90 minute construction project that will pit various teams from different schools in the construction of an all new bridge for a second competition. Registration will be limited to the first 50 bridges to sign up.Here is the URL with all of the details in case you are interestedwww.seattleschools.org/schools/hale/bridge/spaghetti_bridge_rules.html