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Student team hangs weights from a spaghetti bridge
Engineering innovation
Breaking bridges
Published July 25, 2019
Rising high school juniors and seniors compete in annual spaghetti bridge competition
One student stabilizes the base as his teammate gently places a new weight onto their platform
Mission impastable
Unsteady spaghetti
Published July 24, 2017
Student engineers put spaghetti structures to the test in annual Spaghetti Bridge competition
Two young men collaborate at a desk.
Engineering Innovation
Capellini crush
Published July 18, 2017
Aspiring engineers build—then bust—brittle pasta bridges in annual Spaghetti Bridge Competition
Teammates watch anxiously as a team member loads weight below an arched bridge made of spaghetti
Mission impastable
Carb loading
Published July 25, 2016
Aspiring engineers compete in annual Spaghetti Bridge Contest