The physics students in grades 11 and 12 at Notre Dame Regional Secondary School hold an annual bridge building contes. This year it will be held this tuesday May the 6th 2008 and the information about this contest is on
balsabridge.Here they measure if the bridge that was made by the students can withstand the amount of pressure and stress bestowed upon it. On the balsa bridge site one can also find additional links that are related to bridges, here is one of them "
Balsa Wood". Pictures on last years contest are found
here. The contests' sponsors are are a huge part of the contest, because without them this experience would not be as great of would not even happen at all. The list of all the sponsors of this contest can be identified on this
site. A major sponsor is the "Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia"
Vancouver is a city of many interesting bridges, my favorite bridge is the "Burrard Street Bridge of Vancouver"
The winner of the contest in 2000 and who still has the highest record held at 209.4 kg is "Matthew Sullivan"
Here is a closer look at his bridge.(below)
This photo is of last years contest shows the result of a bridge that could not handle the amount of pressure it had to withstand in holding up the weights.
