TITLE

Coaxing the best out of balsa wood

PUB. DATE

June 1993

SOURCE

Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;6/7/93, Vol. 20 Issue 25, p32

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Pictures a group of five teens from Calgary's Sir Winston Churchill High School who have engineered a structure from two-thirds of an ounce of balsa wood capable of holding up as much as 170 pounds in steel weights. Members of the team; Their entry in the North American Balsa Building Competition, Baltimore; Their preparation for the US trip; Comments from unofficial team leader Joyce Ng.

ACCESSION #

9306220128

Tags: STUDENTS

 

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