What Can YOU Do With Popsicle Sticks & Glue?

In unit 1 of Urban Planning, we went over bridges, and looked at different types, such as truss, draw, suspension and arch. With that we looked into more trig, such as vectors, law of sines, law of cosines, etc. We also looked at physics, mainly Newton’s three laws of motion, and how to calculate velocity, both initial and final, and the different types of forces applied to something moving or standing still. For the action project we have to build a bridge with a partner, which has to be at least a foot long and hold 10 pounds. We can only use two materials, popsicle sticks (50) and glue, meaning we will have to use what we learned in this unit to our fullest. I am most proud of the fact that I almost used too many sticks on the base, but my partner and I were able to work around the issue and ended up using less than all 50 sticks. One challenge was the stability of the sides, so I put sticks from the base to meet the top in a diagonal way to support the sides more. Please enjoy!