The Jackson-Milton Physics team went to YSU for a competition that involved building of bridges. The students had to have an excellent design in order to hold the weight that was mandatory for it to hold.

The bridge building teams consisted of Nicholas Scarl, Dylan Straley, Josh Spalding for one team and the other team consisted of Maddie Hyland, Emily Williams, Addie DeVite. The team of all girls held about 50 pounds with their bridge, whereas the boys team held over double their weight coming in at 122 pounds. The teacher that took them was Mr. Mohr.

This is a good opportunity for kids in high school that have plans on furthering their career that want to go into some kind of architecture and design. Most kids would think that this is very hard, and would shy away from it, but the guys team went in very confident and ending up taking second throughout the tournament. Each group of students uniquely designed a bridge to withstand the maximum amount of weight. This was supposed to simulate real life bridges, and critical thinking to maximize the outcome of their design. The students that made bridges now know what kind of designs would work in everyday life for traveling of heavy cars and trucks or tractor trailers.

This is important because in everyday life structures have faulty designs but this project shows them the best designs to show strength in bridges that can be used for actual real life scenarios. Member of the boys team that placed second, Nicholas Scarl stated, “This competition has humbled me in many ways, not only did we get second in the competition but it also gave me the knowledge in bridge designs to possibly use in my life while furthering my career.”