The Spaghetti Bridge Competition 2020

Greg MillicanNews, Students

The Spaghetti Bridge Competition is back and open for 2020. This competition is an excellent way to keep your students engaged and enthused about STEM, and engineering in particular.

The Spaghetti Bridge Competition is a problem-solving engineering challenge for students from Grades 5 to 12.  Teams have up to 4 weeks to plan, design and build a bridge from store-bought spaghetti and glue.  They submit their their bridge for testing on a custom-made rig.  The bridge with the greatest load capacity is declared the winner.

The event fosters team work, problem solving and hands-on learning.

The Spaghetti Bridge competition can be used by schools as an extension activity, or embedded into their science, engineering or physics curriculum.  Resources to support schools to implement the competition are available.

There is prizemoney totalling $2000 and entry is free to all schools, thanks to our sponsors, the Department of Transport and Main Roads and Engineers Australia.

  • Winners – “Chactasic”
  • Second – “Bridge Bois”
  • Best Middle School Team – “EP Pride”
  • “Truss Worthy” – Cannon Hill Anglican College First Place
  • “Ittehgaps” – Genesis Christian College Regional Prize
  • Cannon Hill AC with TMR Engineers

You can find out more about the competition by visiting our website.

Schools can register their teams here.

Schools that are unable to attend a testing date personally can organise to get their bridges to TELG for testing. We will record the test and provide the video to the school.

If you have any questions, please contact TELG and we would be happy to answer them.

We wish your students the best of luck.