!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So the straw bridge challenge was today and...

WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+ best written report!

Yey!

Out of 30 points for the written report we got

29!!!!!!!!

I was really scared that our bridge wouldn't hold up, but it did!

Barely.

It was scary!!!!!!!

Our oral screening was whatever. It was really weird though, because 2 years ago the asked us how building under the roadway can make the bridge stronger, and today the asked us how building above the roadway can make the bridge stronger! Weird.

So then we got into the oral report, and we were first. It was... good. I think. It wasn't bad.

So then we had almost an hour, so we went outside a bit, then we came in and saw a blacksmith working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which was awesome. Then we went over for awards, which they said would be at 1, and were actually at 1:20. But I thought the were going to be at about 2 or 3, so it was really fast compared to last time.

There were some really interesting bridges today.

Like there were some

with arches,

with really tall trusses on the top,

with ramps down to the roadway,

with really tiny triangles everywhere,

with quintuple (or maybe more)-enforced roadways,

with loads of straws going down the the lower ledges,

that weighed 1.1 oz.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So it was a fun challenge. But there were a lot of bridges that looked like they were supposed to fit in the hazard differently, so now I'm wondering if their hazard was different then the specs they gave us.

Ours didn't fit exactly right, but it wasn't as bad as some of the others! It was scary.

Oh yeah, and basically half the teams were from Fredrick! They all had the same t-shirt and everything.

We were the only team to qualify for the oral report that wasn't from Fredrick!

So I'm going to end this post with a huge shout-out to my awesome team-mate and friend,

Wren!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You were amazing Wren!!!!!!!!!!