{"id":725,"date":"2013-04-30T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T10:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/?p=725"},"modified":"2013-04-30T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T10:57:32","slug":"knex-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/2013\/04\/30\/knex-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"K&#8217;Nex Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday, 21 P6 pupils from our feeder Primary schools competed in cluster stage of\u00a0the 2013 K&#8217;Nex Challenge, run as part of the Glasgow Science Festival. In pairs, the pupils had to design and build a bridge that fulfilled several challenging criteria.<\/p>\n<p>The winning pupils were Reece McKay and James Nicol from Netherlee Primary school and you can see their excellent bridge below. 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In pairs, the pupils had to design and build a bridge that fulfilled several challenging criteria. The winning pupils were Reece McKay and James Nicol from Netherlee Primary school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/2013\/04\/30\/knex-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">K&#8217;Nex Challenge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/wwhdepartmentSCIENCE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}