For our bridge, we wanted all the beams in compression to be bigger and stronger. But working with sticky glue and dry spaghetti is not as easy as it seems—spaghetti is pretty unforgiving!" said Wang.

In the Spaghetti Bridge Contest, depicted here ... "We have like-minded people who have really intelligent conversations. ... It was really easy to work with each other." ...

And that’s where the spaghetti comes in ... but she’s not yet sure what kind. She knows the bridge-building is no easy assignment. “It’s a lot of hard work, but it should be interesting ...

Imagine having to build a bridge — a strong bridge — out of nothing but epoxy and spaghetti. Yeah, hard. Just ask one of the 160 high schoolers who recently finished Engineering Innovation ...

How much weight can a spaghetti-and-glue bridge sustain? At Johns Hopkins University, teams of young students compete to find out – and perhaps find a career path in the process. BALTIMORE ...

The competition caps the four-week program. More than 460 students competed in spaghetti bridge contests at 12 sites around the country. Cal State Fullerton holds the program’s record ...

No marinara sauce. No meatballs. No garlic bread. None of the trimmings normally included in the quintessential pasta meal were needed to construct the spaghetti-framed masterpieces built by ...

Given spaghetti as their medium ... La.Whoever builds the bridge that supports the most weight wins a prize. This year's winning entry held 97 pounds. The record is 132 pounds.

Johns Hopkins University will host about 160 high school students at the Homewood campus on Friday to compete in the annual Spaghetti Bridge Contest. They’ll compete against another 452 students ...