Students Become Toothpick Engineers

What can you make with 750 or fewer toothpicks and wood glue?

Students from Montana’s Trout Creek Adventist School created bridges — not just an art project bridge, but a bridge that can hold a lot of weight. This year all nine students in grades one to seven built a toothpick bridge that spanned 12 inches and was 4 inches wide.

An idea bridge was presented to the students, then they started creating their own designs. The two students in grades one and two worked together to create a bridge, and the rest of the students worked independently.