Teams of five students are using kits with identical plastic pieces to build a space station like truss.

At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida teams of five students are using kits with identical plastic pieces to build a space station-like truss. Following construction, weights were added to determine its strength and points were awarded based on how much weight their truss would support.

Between Nov. 26 and Dec. 7, 2012, about 5,300 sixth-graders in Brevard County, Florida were bused to Kennedy's Visitor Complex for Brevard Space Week, an educational program designed to encourage interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics STEM careers. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs