BuIlDiNg A bRidGe

Its the final quarter in the 2nd semester if the 8th grade. We're about to enter high school but before we do there's 1 final project and thats to "build a bridge" into high school. We are required to build a bridge using our geometry skills to calculate our bridge using a certain budget that our teacher provides us. The budget is to spend exactly 1.5 million dollars to build a bridge. The requirements for our bridge was for it to be as light as possible, but able to withstand as much weight as it possibly can. For our group we spent it on hot glue (which was and endless supply), pop stickle sticks (about 1000 dollars or more worth of supplies), used the last remaining of the budget on 2 ft length of string. The purpose to waist exactly 1.5 million is because part of our grading will be based on how we used our budget. A perfect score on our budget is to have it be spent without 1 cent more than 1.5 million and not 1 cent less than 1.5 million. 

What we figured out as we were calculating our budget for our bridge materials was that we had around 2000 dollars extra. What we ended up doing was spending it on 2 ft string even though we weren't going to use it. The type of bridge we ended up constructing was a double truss bridge because it has double the tension facing inward so when the books are placed inside it wont crumble so easily. We choose to build this bridge because it has more weight resistance since we have the pressure going inward the bridge. The reason we did that was because when a bridge does break because of all the books its outward if our pressure from the double truss is inward then it will withstand the pressure of the books inward. 

When it came to the roles of who was building what, Tobar and me had to construct the actual bridge. Amber was supposed to write the request a grant for us to get enough money to purchase 46 more pop stickle sticks. Gary was gathering our supplies when needed. Tobar also had to sketch out the bridge. Ben had to help do the equations in the group. Our team name is called thin ice.