We're Team Bob the Builders 2.0
We are made up of Blake Macias, Sierra Coughlin, and Katie Gerhardt and we are going to blog about our journey through redoing our bridge project from our Freshman Year of high school. The bridge project is sponsored by MDOT  every year and is a state wide competition between 9th and 10th graders. Our task is to build a bridge made of only balsa wood and glue that can hold the most weight while weighing the least. If our proposal gets accepted by MDOT then our team goes to Lansing MI to compete against other teams around the state. At the competition, we have to make a presentation that we will present to engineers from across the country and they will judge us. After we present we will then go to the testing room and test our bridge, and they will then tally the scores using the Strength to weight ratio (which you find by dividing the strength of the bridge by the weight of the bridge). The engineers will then choose the winners. 
  We decided to redo our bridge because the last time we did it everyone failed in different ways. Blake didn't even make it to Lansing because his proposal didn't get accepted. Both Sierra and Katie both got disqualified for the bridges not following the specifications. We were all on different teams last year and decided to combine to try to have the best chance of succeeding. 
  To accomplish our goal of finishing the bridge before the competition, we will work on the proposal and presentation and try to finish them before the competition starts, so we will not have to rush at the last minute.