(Spaghetti) Bridge is falling down: Engineering students compete to design pasta bridges. by Zoe Zellers. Wed, July 20th 2016 at 12:52 PM. Updated Wed, July 20th 2016 at 12:57 PM.

The winning bridge, she said, which used one of the simplest designs with triangular trusses, was able to withstand 35 pounds of weight hanging from the platform before it broke. ‘The event was ...

The 11th annual Spaghetti Bridge Competition challenged participants in the four-week Johns Hopkins Engineering Innovation precollege program to design and construct the strongest possible miniature ...

Hipps’ team, nicknamed “Half-N-Half,” didn’t win the Student Introduction to Engineering (SITE) program’s spaghetti-newspaper bridge design competition, but they said they learned a lot ...

Nineteen teams of students from eight school districts in Western Pennsylvania were hoping to keep things “al dente” Monday night at the 15th annual Pasta Bridge Engineering Competition, held ...

And that’s where the spaghetti comes in.“When I was younger, I remember seeing the older kids make a spaghetti bridge,” says […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now.

Given spaghetti as their medium, the students build bridges with the same design and calculations normally used for steel. Advertisement Then, it's all put into action.

The members of the MCL Bridge Design Company took the stage and stood behind their creation. The bridge was relatively simple—not too high, thicker at the top. Matt Bailey, Clara Nelson and Lucy Li ...

Watch as teams of first-year university students reveal and test their designs. How did they decide what kind of bridges to build? Have a go at designing, testing and building your own spaghetti ...

How much weight can a spaghetti-and-glue bridge sustain? At Johns Hopkins University, teams of young students compete to find out – and perhaps find a career path in the process.

Can you build a bridge out of spaghetti? Your friends might think it’s magic, but it’s science (and math) at work. Grab some fettuccine and let’s build a bridge. Materials needed:… ...