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	<title>Model Bridge Design -- Balsa Bridges</title>
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	<description>Where model bridge builders of all ages come to learn</description>
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		<title>Toothpick Bridge Kit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Testing
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		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/building/toothpick-bridge-kit-2/</link>
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		<title>Bridge Builder Blues Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After long last I have completed this music video of the song, Bridge Builder Blues. 

To see the lyrics of this song, click here
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		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/links-2/bridge-builder-blues-video/</link>
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		<title>New Message Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because of all the recent comments here, I decided it would be a good move to create a forum for all these questions. So now, instead of asking your questions in the form of a comment, you can now create a thread in the forum. No registration is required but it is encouraged.
The New Message [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/website-news/new-message-board/</link>
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		<title>Update and Site Maintenance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found out all comments were being blocked by my comment SPAM filter, so sorry for all those who left comments but they didn&#8217;t show up.
It has been a long time since I posted here. I have been attending college, and haven&#8217;t had much time to devote to model bridge building. However, over Christmas break [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/website-news/update-and-site-maintenance/</link>
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		<title>Off to the Great White North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been updating this website in a while, mainly due to the fact that I have been preparing for a trip to Canada. I have a flight tomorrow, 1900 miles from my home. Anyway, the next update will be posted from the Great White North.
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		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/website-news/off-to-the-great-white-north/</link>
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		<title>Popsicle Stick Bridges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have built three different models of popsicle bridges. You can check out each one:
Popsicle Bridge #1
Popsicle Bridge #2
Popsicle Bridge #3
Popsicle bridges provide a unique challenge because of the limited length of the popsicle sticks. This hurts the inherent strength especially in tension.  Ideally, a member of the bridge in tension would be one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/building/popsicle-stick-bridges/</link>
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		<title>Best Place To Buy Balsa Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



Many people ask &#8220;Where is the the best place to buy balsa wood online?&#8221; The best website I know of is Specialized Balsa LLC. The owner, Jake Zimmer, has been in the balsa business for years and knows what he is doing. Once I had Jake cut me some 1/32&#8243; x 1/32&#8243; sticks of Balsa [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/links-2/buy-balsa/</link>
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		<title>Man Vs. Wild Spoof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My brother, cousin, and I were inspired to make this spoof of the TV show, Man Vs. Wild. We call this Man Vs. City. It is filmed mostly on the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge located in Charleston, South Carolina.
Man Vs. Wild is a show where a man, Bear Grylls, is dropped off in various wildernesses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/website-news/man-vs-wild-spoof/</link>
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		<title>What Bridge Design Holds the Most Weight?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Probably the question I get asked the most is &#8220;What bridge design holds the most weight?&#8221; or &#8220;What bridge design is the strongest?&#8221; 




The answer to that question is not simple and probably is not going to be what you expect. The truth is, I cannot answer the question. There are too many variables that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/design/strongest-bridge-design/</link>
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		<title>Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This bridge is the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge which is over the Cooper River in Charleston, South Carolina. It is North America&#8217;s largest cable stayed bridge. I got these photos when visiting family up there.
 
 
 
 
 
My brother, cousin, and I filmed a short spoof of the TV show, &#8220;Man Vs. Wild&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/photos/historic-bridges/arthur-ravenel-jr-bridge/</link>
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		<title>2007 Science Olympiad Boomilever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the 2007 Science Olympiad season is well over, I am releasing photos of a concept boomilever I made before regionals. 
Here is a video of the testing of the boomilever:
 
 
 


The boomilever broke because of all the force that was applied outwards on the bottom chords. The boomilever simply &#8220;split&#8221; apart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/photos/science-olympiad/2007-science-olympiad-boomilever/</link>
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		<title>Unknown Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

I really have nothing on this bridge. I have no idea what team it is from, how much it weighed, or how well it did at the Science Olympiad competition.
I have a picture of it, well, because I had a camera, and the bridge was there. So if you have seen this bridge before, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/photos/science-olympiad/unknown-bridge/</link>
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		<title>I-Beam Bridge</title>
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This was one of my earlier bridges. I built it after talking with my uncle, who is a mechanical engineer. He suggested that I try using an I-beam. I don&#8217;t know how much this bridge weighed, but it did not hold very much weight.
I had problems making the two I-beams for this bridge. I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/photos/science-olympiad/i-beam-bridge/</link>
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		<title>My Second Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Boy does this bridge bring back memories. I built this bridge in 2001, in the 7th grade. It was my first attempt at building a bridge on my own after building this bridge with my partner.

I had wanted to make an arch bridge, much like the Booth Bridge, but I didn&#8217;t have the building skills [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/photos/science-olympiad/my-second-bridge/</link>
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		<title>Concept Alpha Bridge</title>
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I was never able to fully develop and use this bridge. I got this idea from talking with a Science Olympiad coach in Ohio. Now I wish I had gone ahead and put more work into this. The next year, the bridge rules changed so that I could not use this concept.
The trick was to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsbridges.com/photos/science-olympiad/concept-alpha-bridge/</link>
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