In Honors Geometry Class, we were told to "design and build a tall and strong structure from a given set of materials at an engineering competition."
These given set of materials included:
-25 manila envelopes
-White Glue

Of five people in our group we were given jobs and were told to focus on that subject. To find out more about that subject click on the hyperlinks of jobs at the top of the screen.

 Here is some important information about each kind of engineering:

 Design Engineer…

A helpful piece of information in designing a structure is to think about using a "honeycomb" pattern. Let’s say you lay a bunch of cylindrical hexagonal prisms down and you put pressure on one. Each side of that one hexagon lets force from the compression go to the other hexagons that are apart of the structure. That way the pressure is spread evenly throughout the structure you are building.

 Height Engineer…

For height, one thing to keep in mind is the higher the structure, the more stable the base has to be for better support. You’re not going to have a foot-high cylindrical structure have a diameter of two inches on the base.

Strength Engineer…

For strength, make sure the base is stable and strong (made out of steel, iron, etc. – but in this case you would you extras layers of the material given to you in class) and the beams and poles as well. This will give better support to the whole structure.

Tension and Compression

Tension and compression are important almost all structures ever built. In order to make better and stronger buildings we must understand how T and C work.

Tension can be referred as a rubber band being stretched out. If it is stretched out to much it will eventually break.
Compression can be shown as anything that puts weight on another such as the diagram.

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