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Schenectady High School
March 01 2010
Schenectady
High School Students Take Four Awards
at Regional Model Bridge Contest
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Schenectady High School juniors Suleiman Noor, Adam
McIlravey and Jeremy Sagaille display their winning
designs and awards from the Eastern New York High
School Truss Bridge Competition.
Three
Schenectady High bridges await testing at the
contest.
SHS
student Suleiman Noor receives his awards for
aesthetics and load bearing design.
Structural engineer Sal Bono critiques the
bridge built by Noor. |
Schenectady
High School students won four of the nine awards presented
Thursday, February 25 at The Model Bridge Competition held at
the Albany Marriott.
More than 100
high school students from around the region competed in the
annual contest that involved building a model truss-type or
arch-type model bridge out of balsa wood with the parts joined
by carpenter's glue.
Models were
judged on aesthetics, efficiency and load capacity. Each
model was weighed and loaded to failure by a testing machine.
Model efficiency scores were computed based upon maximum load at
failure divided by the weight of the model.
First, second
and third place awards were given in each of the categories for
a total of nine awards.
Schenectady
High School juniors Suleiman Noor, Jeremy Sagaille and Adam
McIlravey won first, second and third place respectively for
aesthetics. Noor also won third place for total load.
Noor won a
total of $200 in prize money- $150 for first place in the
aesthetics category and $50 for the third place prize.
Sagaille took home $100 and McIlravey won $50.
The contest is
sponsored by the Foundation for Engineering Education, the
Mohawk-Hudson Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers
and the Eastern New York Chapter of the Association for Bridget
Construction and Design.
The event was
held during National Engineers Week.
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