Shades Cahaba holds bridge-building competition

Each year the fifth graders at Shades Cahaba Elementary School have an opportunity to participate in an academic bridge building unit of study. An architect from Davis Architects partnered with each class to help the students in designing, drawing blueprints and building the bridges. 

In addition, Davis Architects provided all of the materials and gave a $100 donation to the most creative team’s charity of choice and a $200 donation to the strongest” team’s charity.  

The bridges were tested to see which team built the strongest bridge. Team Hammerhead from Naomi Goss’ class won by holding 21 pounds, a school record. The team decided to donate its money to St. Jude’s Research Hospital.  

Hammerhead team members were Reid Catherine Bunn, Nick Burczyk, DaShaun Cottrell, Reilly Durkin, John Thomas Ellison and Marissa Patellaro.