MAYS LANDING — Students in a computer-aided drafting and design class tested triangle truss bridges that they designed and constructed using Popsicle sticks. One of the goals of the project was ...

Unger said this year’s group of bridges is among the strongest he has seen in the past dozen years. “Some of these bridges can hold 400 pounds — that is really something,” he said. The most he has ...

The popsicle-stick bridge created by Casey Lakritz, a fourth grader at Wilson School in Petaluma, withstood 213.5 pounds before succumbing to the laws of physics.

Using nothing more than standard Popsicle sticks and white school glue, students at Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet in Los Angeles built a bridge that weighs less than a pound, yet can support 489 ...

To make an effective truss it’s crucial to build it in triangular structures. You can test this for yourself by building little model bridge support pieces out of popsicle sticks.

Yet, with traditional bridge-building activities using materials such as toothpicks or popsicle sticks, students often don’t get the opportunity to accurately measure tension and compression or ...

New Brunswick They crushed it! UNB students win popsicle-stick bridge contest Competition nets winners $500 — and satisfaction of watching their bridge crushed under 80 kilograms of weight ...