Bridge Building Contest

This year Notre Dame's annual Bridge Building Contest will be held on Tuesday May 6. This contest has been going strong for the last 28 years with great success. The contest is designed for both physic 11 and 12 students to use physics principles in order to build a bridge out of balsa wood. The focus of this contest is to build the strongest bridge out of Balsa Wood while following the contest rules. The all time record holder, Matt Sullivan, contstructed a bridge which held 209.4kg ( 461 lbs). Nobody so far has come close to breaking this record, yet students try every year. More info can be found at the Balsa Bridge Website

Here are pictures from last years contest

This year we have a record amount of sponsors.

Some of them include:
APEG

BCIT

SFU

UBC

Buckland & Taylor

Microsoft

SRC

A list of all sponsors can be found at the Balsa Bridge Website

Some descruction for you:

Vancouver is a city with many interesting bridges.

Here is my favorite:

This is the Burrard Street Bridge

Heres an interesting website you should visit which gives facts about balsa woood. http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ncientificos/artigos/techbal.html