Monday, September 22, 2014

Our bridge of paper:

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Our bridge of paper
We decided to use paper to create a large bridge.  We created a 84 inch bridge with just one sheet of paper. Teamwork was useful in order to cut and fold the bridge to make it stable.  The idea come to us instantaneously but it took a while to get it right.


We first attempted to make the bridge out of binder paper. We folded the paper and altenated cuts from up and down which was a success because it was stable and supported by clay and withheld the weight of  2 pieces of clay weighing about 66 ounces.The constraints were that the paper couldn’t be fused to the clay and didn’t touch the table.  Also, we could only use 2 pieces of paper, scissors and 4 pieces of clay.  


All in all, it was a fun project that made us use our heads like engineers.  We made our project prototype into a success.  If we had more time, we could have doubled the size of the bridge and finished our project.

By: B.T.IN.

2 comments:

  1. I am absolutely delighted with your post my good sir. Although I cannot but help notice the few spelling errors you seem to have introduced into your report.

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