As their most recent project, sixth-grade science students at Mountain Middle School built a bridge to somewhere – arriving very likely at a solid grasp of structural engineering, ratio, force and ...

Teacher Bill Evans has built many wooden bridges in his time in high school and college. But this was the first time he used this activity at Midpark. “They get to use their creativity,” Evans said.

Many of the 30 carefully and meticulously crafted balsa wood bridges ended up smashed and crushed in the 21st annual Balsa Wood Bridge Competition sponsored by the Student Construction Association at ...

MARTINSBURG – Central High School students who have physics class with teacher John Fitzpatrick got the opportunity to act as mechanical design engineers to design and build a balsa wood bridge to ...

A balsa wood bridge isn't something you'd want to drive your car over, but it can be a useful way to expose kids to engineering. The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program recently hosted ...

The USF-Selmon Balsa Bridge Design Competition began in the 1980s as a student-run project to connect the University with area under-represented middle and high school students and provide a fun, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Area students will test their bridge design capabilities when they come to Purdue University for the annual Bridge Bust Competition. The event, now entering its 40th year, will ...

A memento from Jan Metzger’s (BS ’81) time as an engineering student brings new meaning to the term “bridging the decades.” “Forty years ago, I was paired up with my classmate Rob Burgess (BS ’81) for ...