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Bridge Contest
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2006 Popsicle Stick Bridge Building Contest

For 2006 the results were:

Elementary Category

Name Description FailureDesc Force
Keegan Tom Single Inverted Warren Deck Truss Lower chord at end joint 1,293
Tyler Tom Modified Inverted King Post Deck Truss Lower diagonal main joint failure 689
Matthew Bretner Inverted Warren Deck Truss Lower chord delamination failure 533
Luca Grandinetti Double Warren Truss without Top Lateral Delamination failure of lower chord members 245
Dima Serebrov      
David Baldwin      
James Youngson      
Adam Veitch      

Secondary Category

Name Description FailureDesc Force
Paul Bretner Inverted Bowstring Without Diagonal Members Top chord buckling, end support Failure 403
Pil Lip Kim, Compression Restrauined Deck Beam End support Failure 94

Open Category

Name Description FailureDesc Force
P.M. Bretner Tied Arch with Dratt Modification End of top chord failed 1,808
Russ Tkachuk Pratt Truss End diagonal failure 1,787
John Wahlstrom Low Pitch Parker Camelback Deck Truss Top chord buckle failure 1,183
Brink/John Chesterman, Lisa Brin, Gavin Brink Pitched Pratt Truss Deck Failure 569
Lisa Atkinson, Matthew Atkinson Modified Howe Deck Truss Failure in end diagonal 536
Alex Wai Partial Double Warren Deck Truss End diagonal failure 436
Chris Vetterli Warren/Pratt Through Truss Buckling of end diagonal member 417
Ya Wen Cheng Discontinuous Warren Truss Failure in end panel bottom chord 283