My group consisted of Chris, Desirae and I. We used penne noodles, lasagna, spaghetti, and more to create our bridge. We googled ideas for bridges and agreed the main shape of the support structures would be triangles, and that the bridge would be shaped like a trapezoid. I drew up the original design but it didn’t work so Desirae laid out a new design with our pasta that did work for the most part, and we made adjustments as we went along. Using hot glue to hold everything together, we glued the penne noodles around 4 strands of spaghetti for more firm supports. Then we glued the base of the bridge together using the lasagna and large noodles. That was probably one of our most problematic areas because not all of the noodles lined up correctly and when we glued them we weren’t careful to make them perfectly straight, so some of them bowed out more than others. And that made it hard to glue the layers and made it even harder for us to glue the sides of the bridges in every place we needed to, but we made it work. After they dried we constructed the sides of the bridge using a lot of hot glue, and finishing with a coat of stronger glue to help keep the noodles from breaking. Finally, we put all of it together and glued it, then coated it with spray on glue in hopes to seal any areas that weren’t sealed properly. 
In the end, our bridge came in last place, only being able to support a textbook, and half the stack of plates before collapsing. Had we made the supports shorter it might’ve lasted longer. Shorter supports would’ve created a more sturdy bridge because they would be less flexible and less likely to bend and break.
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