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Mohonasen technology students compete in Model Bridge Competition
March 31, 2010
Recently,
ten Mohonasen High School students from George Reluzco’s Principles
of Engineering class participated in a model bridge competition. The
contest was held at the Albany Marriott Hotel as part of the Capital
District’s 30th Anniversary Celebration of National Engineers Week.
Students worked during and after school to build model truss-type or arch-type bridges out of balsa wood and glue. Each model was judged on its aesthetics and then weighed and loaded to failure by a testing machine. Cash prizes and certificates were awarded for first, second, and third place in three categories: efficiency, load capacity and aesthetics.
Seniors Emily Dubuc and Nick Anderson (pictured at right) were awarded third place in the efficiency rating, for constructing a high-strength, low-weight bridge.
The model bridge contest, which has been a
tradition at the Capital District celebration for over 25 years, is
sponsored by the Foundation for Engineering Education, the
Mohawk-Hudson Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
and the Eastern New York Chapter of the Association for Bridge
Construction and Design.
