{"id":3148,"date":"2026-09-18T12:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:13:29","slug":"bear-young-engineers-in-p7-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/2026\/09\/18\/bear-young-engineers-in-p7-6\/","title":{"rendered":"BEAR young engineers in P7\/6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week we took part in two live STEM lessons from BEAR Scotland. The first of these was on bridges with Elaine Barry, an engineer who worked on the design of the Queensferry crossing. We learned about different types of bridges as well as what makes a bridge strong. We used these principles to design our own bridges and then to build a geodesic dome made from triangles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This week we took part in two live STEM lessons from BEAR Scotland. The first of these was on bridges with Elaine Barry, an engineer who worked on the design of the Queensferry crossing. We learned about different types of bridges as well as what makes a bridge strong. We used these principles to design… Continue reading BEAR young engineers in P7\/6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whole-school","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/longridge1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}