By: Lucero Martinez

There are different pathways and it all depends on you in what pathway you want to study. Some of the pathways that there are is bio-medical, media technology, and engineering I have chosen to do engineering because I like building and being creative in what I’m making, Im also interested in learning what is engineering and why engineering is important in our society.

Taking the Pltw (project led the way) class has helped me to learn about engineering and the brief things I need to know about engineering. Pltw has developed my understanding for engineering and also for the biomedical and media-tech pathways. It has been fun doing different modules about the different pathways because I’m creating something new every time and I’m also learning at the same time. Recently I did the bridge challenge module and that helped me get a better understanding of engineering and it was fun.

For the bridge challenge I worked with two of my other classmates and we created a bridge with a list of materials and requirements that had to be meet. To begin with this module we first had to create a design brief and also start sketching out how the bridge will look like.When we had all decided in how the bridge will be like we made our final design brief and then we started constructing the bridge. During the constructing of our bridge we had to use a triple beam balance to weight the pieces of the bridge we had to do this because one of the requirements was that it had to be 40 grams and we were happy with the weight of our bridge because it was about 36 grams.  But It was some what a little difficult making the bridge with just 3 materials which were string, toothpicks, and glue but it was okay because we had finally finished our bridge and we actually did good because it supported a good amount of weight and I was happy with the final product.