Built to Be Broken

Students Test Strength of Spaghetti Bridges

July 28, 2010

What:
How much weight can a spaghetti bridge hold? Area high school students in Cal State Fullerton’s four-week Engineering Innovations Program will find out Friday. The competition calls for teams to build bridges of uncooked spaghetti, then load them with weights until they break. At least one of the brittle bridges in previous contests has held 130 pounds.

When:
11 a.m. to noon, Friday, July 30

Where:
Room 402 of the Computer Science Building
800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, 92834

More:
Engineering Innovations, a four-week summer program in Cal State Fullerton's College of Engineering and Computer Science, provides area high school students with opportunities to learn and solve problems like an engineer through hands-on experience. It is made possible through a partnership between Fullerton and Johns Hopkins and is part of the university’s effort to expose more students to the possibilities of education and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

This year’s participants include:

Orange County

Jamie Cerros from Estancia High School, Costa Mesa
Hye Jin Kin, Dennis Liu and Edmund Goh of Sunny Hills High School, Fullerton
Andrew Niklas of La Habra High School
Allen Nguyen of University High School, Irvine
Gabriel Guerrero-Gabany of Valencia High School, Placentia
Zachary Salaam of Corona Del Mar High School
Daisy Esparza and Idalma Cruz of Costa Mesa High School
Briton Park of Los Alamitos High School

Los Angeles County:

Brisa Lopez of Lynwood Middle School
Derek Leung of Glen A. Wilson High School, Hacienda Heights
Ava Chang of Diamond Bar High School
Amy Chow of Arcadia High School

Cost:
Free.

Parking: http://parking.fullerton.edu

More: See SchoolTube.com video at http://www.schooltube.com/video/719009318a744a929fb9/Engineering-Innovation

Media Contacts:
Victor Delgado, Engineering, 657-278-2887 or vdelgado@fullerton.edu
Russ L. Hudson, Public Affairs, 657-278-4007 or rhudson@fullerton.edu