Bridges

 For this action project we were encouraged to create a bridge that would be able to support 10 pounds. I created my bridge off of a model of some example pictures we looked at online. We also went on some amazing FE in the downtown Chicago to get a feel of what real bridges are made of and what makes them work. This also helped inspire us to make really strong bridges but we had a challenge. Our bridges could only be built out of at the most 50 popsicle sticks. This presented a challenge because popsicle sticks are not only weak but they do not hold together very well with the glue that we are provided with. This pushed the class to further expand our creativity and how to make the bridges work this involved using some very important equations like law of signs and lots of cosines we also had to calculate force and wait. At the end of our calculations and bridge building we tested our bridges. And unfortunately our bridge failed but we learned a lot on what makes a bridge successful.