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St John The Baptist Primary School, Portadown

Engineering Challenge - Suspension vs Beam Bridges

2nd Dec 2025

We completed our 8th and final engineering challenge in our Bridges topic this week!

Our focus was to experiment with the strength of a suspension bridge such as the impressive Peace Bridge in Derry! 

Once again, working in teams we created a structure and put our learning to the test! We were amazed to find out that our suspension bridge structure could actually hold more weight than a beam bridge structure despite using the majority of the same materials!