The Strongest Bridge Tech Challenge

We were faced with another challenge in technology today - to build a bridge to cross an imaginary river!  "We'll find out who can build the strongest bridge by stacking books on your bridge until it collapses", said Miss Simpson.  Here is the information we were given before starting our challenge:

• 'river' is 40cm wide
• equipment:  straws, sellotape, icecream container lid and newspaper
• tools:  rules, pens and scissors
• good communication with group members is the key to avoiding an epic fail
• choose your own groups
• create strong poles by tightly rolling the newspaper

 

We were all VERY nervous before our bridges were tested.  We could not believe how strong some of them were!  Congratulations to Tyler, Cameron and Jensen for building a bridge that could hold ten books!  Well done Levi, Leah, S and Logan for building the 'prettiest' bridge too!  Here are the final results: