Looking for a little engineering fun in Prince George?
The Central Interior branch of Engineers and Geoscientists BC is hosting their annual Popsicle Stick Bridge Building Competition on Saturday, April 13 at Pine Centre Mall.
The event is open to children and adults with prizes to be won in each age category.
Using a maximum of 100 Popsicle sticks and white school glue, adults and/or children design and build their own innovative bridges at home.
The bridges are then brought to Pine Centre Mall on Saturday, April 13 where they are loaded onto the specially designed machine that applies an increasing load until the bridge breaks.
The machine is equipped with a sensor called a load cell that measures the force that is applied to the bridge. Top three bridges that can withstand the most force in each category win a gift card prize.
This event is geared to promote STEM, science technology, engineering, and math, in the community encouraging everyone to participate, if not at this year’s event, then in future events.
Adults and children can design and build their own innovative bridges at home using free kits that include 100 Popsicle sticks and white glue.
Bridge kit and instruction pickup locations:
Thursdays to Mondays at The Exploration Place gift store, 333 Becott Place
Tuesdays to Sundays at Two Rivers Gallery gift store, 725 Canada Games Way
Weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Wood Innovation & Design Center (WIDC), 499 George St. at the Paladin Security desk.
Weekdays 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Gairns Santos Engineering Inc., 678 Vancouver St.
Weekdays at Access Engineering Consultants Ltd., 767 Vancouver St.
The event begins with registration at the mall at 11 a.m. Contest starts at noon and goes youngest to oldest.
