Make Magazine: Make Bridges

Enjoy watching this video of a quickly made bridge that supports a lot of weight. It also includes video footage of the Ignite Seattle popsicle stick bridge contest.

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GarrettsBridges WPBD Local Contest

GarrettsBridges.com is hosting a West Point Bridge Design Local Contest. This local contest starts today and runs to March 1, 2010. All designs must be submitted by Midnight, March 1. This contest is open to anyone under the age of 25

West Point Bridge Designer Contest 2010

THE 2010 WEST POINT BRIDGE DESIGN CONTEST IS ALMOST UNDERWAY! The United States
Military Academy is pleased to offer the West Point Bridge Design Contest once
again. The purpose of this Internet-based competition is to provide middle school
and high school students with a realistic, engaging introduction to engineering

Seattle Annual Popsicle Stick Bridge Competition

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)

Bridge Building Contests

International Bridge Building Competition West Point Bridge Design Contest Physics Balsa Bridge Building Contest If you know of any other bridge building contests, let me know by leaving a comment. • • • • Share This!

2nd Relpats Contest

The famous Relpats Contest has been reborn. Simply go to www.relpats-eht.com to check the contest out. Unfortunately, I have been *sniff* forbidden *sniff* from the contest as relpats had already sent me some of the answers when the contest was in development. These riddles will probably leave you scratching your head from absolute bewilderment. And [...]

West Point Bridge Design Contest

The 2007 contest is over, check back next year for another chance to win! Here is the Local Contest’s winning bridge: This is not the winning design for the worldwide contest, just the GarrettsBridges.com local contest. Congratulations to Big Jake who submitted the design and won $100. Link to Scoreboard • • • • Share [...]

Line Rider

Here is my first attempt at a game called Line Rider: Line Rider is a free flash game in which you make a track for the “rider” to ride upon. It is fun and addicting. Have fun making your own LineRiders. • • • • Share This!

Bridge IT

Recently I was introduced to a bridge building program, Bridge It. This program is made by NVIDIA and Auran. In the game, you are given scenarios and have to make a bridge that will support the required load while staying within a budget. Let me tell you, some of them are not easy. Bridge It [...]

Funny Comments from the Original Relpats_eht Contest

Note, this page is meant for laughs only, and not to offend anyone. If I happened to use something you said, well, laugh along with the rest of us yea…page 5 has no solution does it? ur just pulln my leg…its not possible i swear it isnt! okay i got number one now a lil [...]