Welcome to Sehome High School’s Bridge Building Club homepage. This site strives to inform a potentially interested student in all things Bridge Club. Here we have information on what it takes to join the club, advice for building bridges, and additional resources.
The Sehome Bridge Building Club consists primarily of Physics students. Club members build model bridges according to specific rules set by the International Bridge Building Contest Committee and test the bridges by crushing them. Although the Club is open to everyone, to make the Bridge Building Team a student has to place in the top five in the school-wide competition. The Team members then compete at a regional level, and then the top two at regionals win a free trip to compete at the International Competition (formerly National Competition). The champion of the International Competition wins a full scholarship to the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Designing, building, and testing model bridges teaches students engineering principles, construction techniques, and project management skills.
The International Bridge Building Contest challenges students to make model bridges out of basswood per a specific set of specifications. These rules change every year. People test the bridges by adding weight to a loading point until the bridge breaks. Bridge efficiency determines the rank of a bridge. Efficiency is the weight that the bridge held divided by the mass of the bridge.
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