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May 13, 2025
CHS Junior Tops Fellow Long Island Students in National Bridge Competition in Chicago
CHS principles of engineering student Vincent D. returned from the National Bridge Building competition in Chicago with an impressive showing.
Vincent, a junior, finished 20th in the nation.
His wood structure supported more than 2,000 times its weight at the national competition.
That made Vincent’s bridge the top-performing structure of any of the national qualifiers from Long Island.
The Long Island students originally had competed in March at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
To put that 2000-times-its-weight efficiency into perspective, that means that if Vincent’s bridge weighed as much as a penny, it could safely support a watermelon.