The American Society of Civil Engineers has been putting on an annual popsicle stick bridge competition for high schools in western Washington for the last 13 years. Last year, I entered with a 350 gram, 30 inch long bridge that carried 567 pounds under their hydraulic press. Their website is http://www.seattleasce.org/ymf/popsiclebridge.html . They score the bridges on efficiency (I won at that!) and aesthetics (I don’t know why I didn’t win at that).
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these bridges you make are so awesome!Im building a bridge for school, its going to be displayed at edwards mill school inWhittier C.A.,and I need some tips on how to build bridges.I am building an arch bridge after I test it ill make a video and send it to you.Anyway, thanks for the bridge building tips!Bye!
you are not helping me out i need some information. cmon maine how do you do this stuff . ya hear me.
This last year I entered an amazing bridge that won both aesthetics and efficiency. It was 350 grams, 30 inches long, and held 993 lbs, 1300 times its own weight! The materials are: high grade popsicle sticks, elmers white glue, lots of clamps, lots of thinking, lots of time(they allow about 4 months), good craftsmanship, and a lot of patience.
Thanks for sharing, Darrel. Do you have any pictures of your bridge or that competition?
i am a btech 1st year student from bhubaneswar ,odisha,india & want to make a 350cm long truss popsicle bridge for which efficency is require more than 650 points .
i requires some design and hints . please help me.
It’s Simple…
all you need is about 300-400 popsticle sticks and a hot glue gun or a regular glue…
then start combinning some popsticles to make a medium size arch to hold about 10 pounds with will trigger it to weild more weight for your science project.
at the end you should come out to about 40-70 pound bridge that can probubuly hold about 100-200 pounds of weight.
-Sage