French Engineering
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As part of International Day we learnt about Gustave Eiffel, a French civil engineer famous for the Eiffel Tower and constructing the Statue of Liberty.
We then split into groups and each group was given 30 drinking straws and a short piece of sticky tape – the challenge was to build the tallest tower, including a “windy day” test.
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