{"id":17247,"date":"2019-06-27T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=17247"},"modified":"2019-06-27T17:32:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:32:32","slug":"welcome-to-the-bridge-and-tower-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/welcome-to-the-bridge-and-tower-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Bridge and Tower fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A quick note on materials before we get started. We can provide kits, or you can find these materials around your house or for a couple dollars at the grocery store. We recommend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Spaghetti and Marshmallows for our youngest builders. They are easy to work with (but a bit sticky).<\/li><li>Straws and Tape for tower builders that want to reach the sky<\/li><li>Toothpicks and gummy candy for tower builders that want to test the strength of these small materials.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We also utilize a few free bridge building apps to help you test these ideas out in virtual physics simulators:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Build a Bridge! is a freemium game available on Android and iOS.<\/li><li>Bridge Construction Free is a limited free game available for iOS.<\/li><li>Physics Simulation Building Destruction is a free game available on Android and iOS.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the STEM challenges that will help you build your brain power!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login?p=14726\">Challenge 13<\/a>: Build the first 5 bridges in the app. (Click here if you have trouble installing it!)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login?p=14759\">Challenge 14<\/a>: Build the tallest tower possible with 20 straws and tape.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login?p=14784\">Challenge 15<\/a>: Build a bridge tower IRL.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login?p=14808\">Challenge 16<\/a>: Building a toothpick tower that can support a brick.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login?p=14836\">Challenge 17<\/a>: Becoming an accomplished virtual bridge builder. (Challenges 6-10 in the app)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login?p=14916\">Challenge 1<\/a>8: Building a tall bridge<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login?p=14938\">Challenge 19<\/a>: Building a long bridge<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login?p=14861\">Challenge 20<\/a>: Becoming an advanced virtual bridge builder. (Challenges 11-15 in the app)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login?p=14888\">Challenge 21<\/a>: Becoming an expert virtual bridge builder! (Challenges 16-20 in the app)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note on materials before we get started. We can provide kits, or you can find these materials around your house or for a couple dollars at the grocery store. We recommend: Spaghetti and Marshmallows for our youngest builders. They are easy to work with (but a bit sticky). Straws and Tape for tower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}