Science Experiment

The news paper bridge

In year 6 at Maungatapu Primary School, at Lake Whakamaru Camp we had to build a bridge using one meter of sellotape , and three pages of news paper and one pair of scissors per group, there were five people in a group and six groups. First we had to make the base so my group made six strong paper pillars to hold up the bridge, that went well but then we had to tape it together with only one meter of sellotape and we needed some left over too, so that was one of the hardest part of building the bridge. We also ripped thick wide strips of news paper and sellotaped them onto the pillars. It nearly fell over. We were the first group to finish, then the juges came to tell us that we needed to put two muesli bars on top, that was also very hard! In the end we won and got to eat the muesli bars, that was fun.