A balsa wood bridge isn't something you'd want to drive ... The students gather in groups around blueprints of their own design. They carefully measure, cut, and glue thin pieces of balsa wood ...

A group of middle schoolers crowd around two balsa wood bridge models ... They say they liked planning the bridge. "Map out the designs, like a blueprint," they advise. But Pius and Jaye say ...

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 ...

The students in Mike Johnson’s design classes at Kenowa Hills High School have been trying to see how long a bridge made out of balsa wood, glue, and 8-pound fishing line can hold 25 pounds.

The students’ classroom calculations that went into building truss bridges of balsa wood were tested in public ... students drew sketches and followed up with blueprints. They next ran their ...

BALSA WOOD BRIDGES WERE PUT TO THE TEST BY MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS ACROSS THE TRIAD, SHOWCASING THEIR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH SKILLS. POUND BY POUND, CHALLENGING THE STRENGTH OF ...

Hornets Rock. Balsa King. Fire. These were the names of some of the 26 bridges entered in this year's Balsa Wood Bridge Competition at the State University of New York College of Environmental ...

“Forty years ago, I was paired up with my classmate Rob Burgess (BS ’81) for an EAS 101 class project that was an annual tradition for first-year students: building a miniature bridge that can ...

Second-year students in the Northampton Community College architecture program spent weeks constructing bridges from balsa wood, knowing this day would come. They tested the limits of those ...