It towered for centuries over Teotihuacán, the largest city in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Today, Mexico’s famed Pyramid of the Sun risks slowly sinking and crumbling like a sand castle.

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Tags: construction, pyramid, sand, Structural Engineering, Tiotihuacan, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Tufts University students took to the beach for a fun, hands-on lesson in engineering design, creativity, and materials science.

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Tags: Civil Engineering, Engineering Design Process, materials science, sandcastle construction, Structural Engineering, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

Find in-person and online engineering education offerings for kids as young as pre-kindergarten on the new interactive map created by ASEE’s Pre-College Engineering Education Division. 

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In this NGSS-aligned activity, 2nd graders draw on their knowledge of Earth science to follow the engineering design process and investigate solutions for protecting sandcastles from wind and water damage. They make hypotheses, measure and record changes, and support their results using evidence. Suitable for students in grades 1-3.

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Tags: construction, data, Earth Science, Engineering Design, erosion, materials, measurement, NGSS, sandcastle construction, sandcastle engineering, structural and civil engineering