The hallway leading to UMD's Hydraulics and General Projects Laboratory was littered with toothpick shrapnel, a dead giveaway that it was the right place for Wednesday's 22nd Toothpick Bridge Building ...

The suspension bridge 11-year-old Maryl Stone and her Shades Cahaba Elemen­tary School classmates built isn't strong enough to support much. But it did support 13 pounds and won her group first place ...

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Students in Inga Cashon's engineering concepts class at Bryan County High School, recently completed the Toothpick Bridge Challenge in which they were required to research design ideas, sketch a final ...

Superior High School student Ari Robillard, second from left, reacts as her teammates, Taylor Schultz, left, and Paige B. Johnson balance a weighted bucket on their toothpick bridge at the American ...

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Bondurant-Farrar Middle School students saw a record smashed Feb 1. Eighth-grader Wyatt Bailey destroyed the previous record of the school’s toothpick bridge design which was 64 pounds. Bailey’s ...

For 20 years, Bruce Pap has built bridges with his young students as they watched bridges made of toothpicks collapse. Then, 11 months ago, a real bridge collapsed. And suddenly, today's "bridge ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- There's a new storefront at Destiny USA that's got kids pressing their noses to the windows. But nothing in the store is for sale. They're all looking at a collection of massive ...