Southeast Missouri high school students who painstakingly built balsa-wood bridges watched Thursday as state transportation employees broke them. The day of destruction was part of the Missouri ...

MARTINSBURG – Central High School students who have physics class with teacher John Fitzpatrick got the opportunity to act as mechanical design engineers to design and build a balsa wood bridge to ...

(Above) Rachel Blalock, a MoDOT design technician, increases the load on a balsa-wood bridge constructed by Notre Dame student Laura Schaefer for the seventh annual bridge building competition ...

Second-year students in the Northampton Community College architecture program spent weeks constructing bridges from balsa wood, knowing this day would come. They tested the limits of those bridges in ...