TRAC+State+Bridge+Competition

The Michigan TRAC Program []

Although the team, which consisted of Josh Paquet and Anna Nurmela. vement for building bridges, given to us by the MDOT hosts.

Our bridge's were made of balsa wood sticks and popsicle sticks. We didn't place states, unfortunately. We had fun building the bridges, and we even learned a few new tricks as to how we could use our original computer programs. One of them is called AUTOCAD, a program that is said short as CAD, or spelled out "Computer Aided Designs". We used this program to aid in building our bridges, and used it more than just for the bridges in our years of experience. In time, we came to the point in which we participated in the MDOT program for building our bridge. We spent many months just building and analyzing our own bridge, changing different things and coming up with new ideas. One of our key aspects of our bridge is the one string, which represents the bridge cable for the bridge, that is thicker than most bridges, and is made to take most of the force from the bridge itself. We had hopes of placing one of the three runner up spots, but not the high end spot as to where we would advance to the Nationals. We did not place any of them. However, we got much experience from this event, not just from building bridges. We were able to perform our presentation on our bridge in front of an audience. Many other people had different bridges as well, and we met many people at this event.

We hope to achieve more because of this event in our future.