Students teamed up to create a bridge building competition to test engineering design principles
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½ûÂþÌìÌÃ’s Engineers Without Borders, made up of engineering students, partnered with Bishop Connolly High School (BCHS) to host a Bridge Competition where BCHS students got to showcase their engineering knowledge and skills by building model bridges. These model bridges represent a variety of bridges that would be built in the workforce by engineers and were judged for their quality and different strength abilities.
½ûÂþÌìÌà supplied the materials and software for students to experiment with before building their bridges. Shane Almeida, a junior engineering student at UMassD judged the high school student bridges for their structural integrity and aesthetics.
The winning bridge for structural integrity was awarded to Rylee Lopes, which had a mass of 65 grams and held 72 pounds of paper. Nathan Sousa won the most aesthetically pleasing bridge award.