York
Technical College
News Release
For Immediate
Release
Contact: Joe Polinski
(803) 981-7161
York Tech Engineering Students Compete to Build the Strongest Toothpick Bridge
December 3, 2007
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ROCK HILL—York
Technical College Engineering Technology students will battle it out
beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 6, to determine who has built
the strongest bridge from toothpicks. Testing of the bridges will take place in the college's Institute for Manufacturing Productivity. Students, working in pairs, built the foot-long bridges as part of a class assignment. Forty percent of the project's grade will be riding on the results of the competition. The object of the assignment was to build the strongest, lightest bridge possible. The winner of the contest will be the team that finishes with the best ratio of bridge weight to load. To test the load bearing capacity of the bridges, sand will be slowly added to buckets on the bridges until the bridges fail, that is, collapse or bend beyond what is allowed by the contest rules. For more information about the contest, call Susan Roberts at (803) 981-7138. York Technical College . 452 S. Anderson Road . Rock Hill, SC 29730 |