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I received a lot of satisfaction teaching Jr & Sr Hi students elementary 
structural truss analysis so they could better compete in the Colorado 
State Wide Science Olympiad. (Bridge building was one of several events in 
this contest).

Brian, my most devoted student, won the state competition several times 
under my guidence.  I explained the geometry and physics necessary to sum 
the forces around each joint in the truss. Then he data entered a pascal 
program from "Numerical Recipies in Pascal" to solve the 10 equations and 
10 unknowns (with my help).

This competition really gets students excited about math and physics and 
shows them some real-world applications of the geometry and matrix algebra 
they (may) learn in math class.  


I would like to volunteer my services again to the local Jr. & Sr. High 
schools (or anyone else), but I am having trouble finding information 
about the bridge building contests.  

I briefly contemplated writing a magazine article on the subject a while 
ago, but that is not as satisfying as working with students directly. I 
suppose I could still be inspired to do so.

Can anyone guide me to finding out about bridge building contests or other 
ways I can contribute to the educational community?

      Thanks,
                        Sieg