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Oakland Students Are Engineers for a Day
They aren’t old enough to drive across a bridge, but that didn’t deter Lafayette Elementary School fourth and fifth-graders from donning hard hats and safety vests and learning how to build one.
Throughout March 2014, Bay Bridge public information officer Victor Gauthier visited these students’ classrooms and led a hands-on unit that covered the construction of the new seismically-safe East Span and the earthquake that destroyed part of its predecessor. The unit culminated in a field trip for each class to the Bay Bridge public information office, where the engineers-in-training built miniature bridges and explored the models outside the office.