The hallway leading to UMD's Hydraulics and General Projects Laboratory was littered with toothpick shrapnel, a dead giveaway that it was the right place for Wednesday's 22nd Toothpick Bridge Building ...

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Superior High School student Ari Robillard, second from left, reacts as her teammates, Taylor Schultz, left, and Paige B. Johnson balance a weighted bucket on their toothpick bridge at the American ...

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The suspension bridge 11-year-old Maryl Stone and her Shades Cahaba Elemen­tary School classmates built isn't strong enough to support much. But it did support 13 pounds and won her group first place ...

Middle and high school students in the San Antonio Prefreshman Engineering Program demonstrated their bridge-building skills on a miniature level Wednesday. Two-person teams were instructed to build a ...

For 20 years, Bruce Pap has built bridges with his young students as they watched bridges made of toothpicks collapse. Then, 11 months ago, a real bridge collapsed. And suddenly, today's "bridge ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- There's a new storefront at Destiny USA that's got kids pressing their noses to the windows. But nothing in the store is for sale. They're all looking at a collection of massive ...

These are arcs of toothpick triumph. At Manos House, a Lancaster city drug- and alcohol-treatment facility for teenage boys, residents bridge an uncertain past for a more positive future - even with ...

Bondurant-Farrar Middle School students saw a record smashed Feb 1. Eighth-grader Wyatt Bailey destroyed the previous record of the school’s toothpick bridge design which was 64 pounds. Bailey’s ...