Bondurant-Farrar Middle School students saw a record smashed Feb 1. Eighth-grader Wyatt Bailey destroyed the previous record of the school’s toothpick bridge design which was 64 pounds. Bailey’s ...

The hallway leading to UMD's Hydraulics and General Projects Laboratory was littered with toothpick shrapnel, a dead giveaway that it was the right place for Wednesday's 22nd Toothpick Bridge Building ...

Seventh-grader Jacoby Yliniemi dropped a bowl of sand into the bucket being held up by his group’s toothpick bridge, bit his lip and then relaxed. The bridge was safe. At least for a second. Another ...

For 20 years, Bruce Pap has built bridges with his young students as they watched bridges made of toothpicks collapse. Then, 11 months ago, a real bridge collapsed. And suddenly, today's "bridge ...