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Model Bridge Contest 2025-26
Future City: From Farm to Table!
Future City: From Farm to Table!
Here"s the link! WATCH THE 2026 MODEL BRIDGE CONTEST FROM FEBRUARY 7TH -- OUR 35TH COMPETITION!
https://video.ibm.com/recorded/134693580
OLD NEWS: The Boston Society of Civil Engineers held our THIRTY-FOURTH Annual Model Bridge Design Contest last February. Here are the results:
AESTHETICS TOP 3 - OVERALL
1. Swampscott Public Library
2. Westford Academy
3. Malden Catholic
ULTIMATE LOAD TOP 3 - OVERALL
1. Swampscott Public Library (HS Team)
Weight: 15.6 oz., held 242#: effic 258.26
2. Swampscott Public Library (MS Team)
Weight 18.6 oz., held 222#: effic 199.64
3. Catholic Memorial
Weighed 19.4 oz., held 227#, Effic 195.49
Watch the 2025 Competition: https://video.ibm.com/recorded/134219124
2024-25 Rules: https://engineeryourfuture.org/downloadables
Also, we are ALWAYS looking for volunteers.
Future City: From Farm to Table!
Future City: From Farm to Table!
Future City: From Farm to Table!
TEAM SOIL DE JANEIRO FROM WILBRAHAM MONSON ACADEMY, OUR OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE FROM NEW ENGLAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL FINALS, JUST WON THE ASABE AWARD -- THE "FARM TO TABLE" AWARD OF THE NATIONAL COMPETITION!
Our Finalists:
1. Soil de Janeiro
2. Derby 9: Horizon Bay
3. PGS Rowley: Kaleizoei
4. JFK Middle: Demeter's Designers - Athens
5. AMS Medford: Atplantis
The theme this year requires all teams to explain how their food system feeds the community while being waste free from farm to table.
This year, wehad eastern and western New England semifinal competitions for middle schools, and in addition, there is now a high school competition! The rules for high schools is similar to middle schools except instead of making a scale physical model, teams are given the CAD/BIM program Revit and they design their cities using that program. There is no regional competition for high schools -- the teams are virtually competing internationally and the top teams are invited to Washington DC where they present in person. Because our policy is to never allow any of our teams to incur any registration expenses, we are in the process of securing funds to cover a limited number of teams in New England. More information is to come.
FUTURE CITY - Students grades 6-8 create their dream city of the future, but then explain how it all works using convincing technology! Registration is now closed, but we can always use volunteers and judges -- find us at
www.engineeryourfuture.org -- we are the NEW ENGLAND region.
Last year was WONDERFUL! Watch or New England FINALS:
ASCE Bridge designer contest
Future City: From Farm to Table!
ASCE Bridge designer contest
After a long hiaitus, the Ralph Salvucci Online Bridge Contest is BACK! Thanks to Stephen and Gene Ressler, with help from ASCE, our favorite contest is ready for a return. This is a test run. All students will be individuals and will register through an educator. Unfortunately, I need to limit the contest to educators in New England. In the registration, we only want educator emails!
Once registered, more info will be sent.
Click on this link to register
For an ASCE Bridge Buildertutorial click on this link
To design your bridge
(you can do this even if not doing the contest!)
The parameters for the Bridge designing will be the following: Medium-strength concrete(0.23 meters thick) and the standard 2.25 kN truck (two lanes)are the required aspects of the bridge. The contestant has the freedom and control over the rest of the available option on the bridge disigner. For example the deck elavtion, piers, cable anchorges, bridge template are all things the contestant can decide.
In the design project set up that comes up whenever a new bridge design is started, on screen 6, under project name, put the educator contact info(a name and email). Under designed by, put enough of the name that an educator will know who the student is.Under project ID there should be a total of 14 characters followed by a hyphen and then the price of the bridge as follows: if the price of the bridge is $1,223,934.26 put in 122393426. so the id for a bridge that cost $1,223,934.26 would be,
Example: ID:12345678901234
price:122393426
FILE NAME:
12345678901234-122393426.bdc
(the BDC extension is automatic)
I know -- a lot of characters...
We truly need sponsors and personal donations. Our goal is to never have students, schools, teachers or parents be faced with registration costs, and to elimate as many of their expenses as feasible. Please sponsor, and if you know anyone else, especially companies fitting our farm to table theme, share this with them as well.
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ASCE Bridge designer contest
We are a group of volunteers. While membership in BSCES is recommended it is not mandatory for volunteering. We do require CORI checks and participating in the free training found at www.fliptheswitchcampaign.org. Think you would be a good fit? Get in touch for more information!
Our History
Our History
Our History
The Boston Society of Civil Engineers has been around since 1848. Our Model Bridge Contest is having its 30th Anniversary this year!
Our Mission
Our History
Our History
We bring opportunities for young people to experience STEM careers and that feeling one gets when they work to solve world problems. Our goal is to set an even playing field, taking economic or other factors out of the equation to gain that experience.