ANSEP aims to excite students about STEM

Anchorage students put their designs to the test Friday.
They hooked a suspended box onto bridges they designed and built out of balsa wood and glue. They then put metal balls into the boxes until the bridges snapped.
“This is a very good opportunity to learn,” Jason Kyle, a student at the academy, said. “I learned lots of stuff about bridges today, like how triangles are very powerful because they lean in on each other.”
The 54 students learned about the strength to weig