If you would like to attend, please contact Shelbi Tippett at stippett1@umbc.edu, she will be organizing the carpool!
sponsors the Straw Bridge Competition for middle schools as part of the
Engineering Challenges® competition that are organized and hosted by The
Baltimore Museum of Industry.
What does it take to make a bridge? The Strawbridge Challenge is designed
to let teams of two to four middle school students learn some of the finer
points of building a bridge that will allow a 1/64th scale truck loaded
with 6.5 pounds of lead to travel over a bridge that spans a gap 20 inches
wide. The students are allowed to use only plastic soda straws, hot melt
glue and tabs of plastic to build their bridge. This, along with a
simulated road surface, must hold the truck for one minute.
The competition will be held at The Baltimore Museum of Industry
1415 Key Highway Baltimore 21230
On Saturday, April 25 2015, from 9am-2pm
We are looking for volunteers to help with this year’s event. Volunteers
with both technical and non technical backgrounds are needed for such jobs
as performance testing, paper reading and static judging as well as
assisting teams through the event and general crowd control.
Robert Montanez at roberto.montanez@gmail.com ph (410) 961-1826 or
Paul Borthwick at rpborthw@yahoo.com ph (443) 745-8089.
For more info on the competition see:
http://thebmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2015-Straw-Bridge-Guide-update.pdf
