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Answers to our Pen Pal, Cindy’s questions

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Answers to our Pen Pal, Cindy’s questions

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Natalie-I play 3 different sports: golf, tennis, and soccer. They each have around one practice a week for an hour and a half each time.

Nikki-I don’t play any sports right now, but I like to do them in gym class. instead, I do Scouts, which is where you can earn lots of merit badges and learn lots of wilderness survival skills.

Since we live in St. Louis, Missouri, it is the only place in the world where you can eat toasted ravioli.

In St. Louis, the most famous restaurant is IMO's pizzeria. It is famous because they put provolone cheese on their pizzas it is a very specific taste and some people love it while others don’t

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She's a Chinese student who goes to Utahloy International School in Guangzhou, China.

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Look at how this bridge is different from modern bridges. How are modern bridges stronger from bridges that were built long ago?

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Unit 3: Cultural Partnerships Project Rubric  

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These are our “icebreaker” interview questions where we are asking people from different countries about their lives and their cultures and how they differ from our lives.

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Natalie and Nicky-Your real name and home language.MOV

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Winners at a bridge building competition

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Learning by practice is always the best, says civil engineering professor Amr ElRagaby. That's what makes a contest to design and build a model bridge from popsicle sticks a valuable experience for his students.

"They can understand the principles, but when they have a chance to apply the theories, they learn something they will never forget," he says.

Students of his third-year class in Finite Element for Analysis and Design will test the load-bearing capacity of their structures Wednesday, and invite the campus community to watch. The competition measures their skills in analyzing, designing and constructing truss bridges built only with craft sticks, toothpicks, and glue. Each bridge will measure 750 mm and will be subjected to a load test until it collapses.

"Failure is the ultimate goal, because only then can we know the ultimate limits of their strengths and flexibility," says Dr. ElRagaby.

The competition offers cash prizes in three categories:

highest ratio of load borne to structure mass and deformation;

most accurate prediction of maximum load; and

most creative and innovative design.

The testing is open for public viewing and begins at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 31, in the Industrial Courtyard, Centre for Engineering Innovation.

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Model competition to test engineering students' bridge-building skills

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The public is invited to watch engineering students test the strength of their model bridges on Wednesday.