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Show ' ' ' I 'I n - I - I ' I '- ;' -j p Jim Smedley Anticipation: Sixth-grade student Danielle Beck waits to, see how long her bridge stays up with weight of a bucket of sand added to it. v Building a better bridge: 1984 champion wins again ; - . i "4. . ' f '" v ty ! - : -&k .;-. v-"K ' '- " s . u r. ,-f- ,',,'v.Y" V ' , , J by JIM SMEDLEY Record staff writer 'w..if ;v?f.ilnuo.v . Treasure Mountain Middle School sixth-grader Brad Chamberlain not only answered Principal Brian Schiller's challenge of: "Build me a better bridge." He did it twice. ' Chamberlain, this year's winner of the TMMS bridge-building contest, con-test, also built the strongest span in the 1984 competition. His entry this year held 1,481 times its weight. Second place went to Cody Sieverts, whose bridge held 1,210 times its weight. Jeff Chamberlain's bridge ended up third, holding 980 times its weight and Jon Cheerington placed fourth with an entry that held 971 times its weight. Students had been gluing their bridges together since Schiller's -fifth annual bridge building contest J began Nov. 5. The final judging of . The only materials students could use to make the bridges were flat toothpicks and white glue. The bridges had to be at least 25 centimeters cen-timeters wide, because that was the distance between the two desks which the bridges had to span. Sand was poured by contestants into a bucket supported by a strap across their bridges. The bridge that held the most sand compared to its weight was declared the winner. Chamberlain received a $75 savings sav-ings bond contributed by Reynolds & Mammen Architects of Salt Lake City. Sieverts received a $50 savings bond donated by J.J. Johnson & Associates of Park City for. his second-place entry. Jeff Chamberlain won a $10 gift Certificate Cer-tificate from Minors Only for third place and Cherrington won a pizza donated by Schiller for his fourth-place fourth-place finish. ;, Sixth-grade student Star Clark puts finishing touches on her entry for bridge contest. . . ' |