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It took almost three weeks to build.  Five teams spent hours after school building bridges.  Each team build a truss bridge made from balsa wood and glued with gorilla glue.  The teams designed their bridges.  It took precise measuring and creative gluing.  Students learned and experimented with weight distribution, measurement conversion, geometric concepts and three-dimensional space drawing.  The bridges were brilliantly created, only to be busted at a competition. 

On November 14, 2015, seventeen students from the MCC STEP participated in the Build’Em & Bust’Em competition held at the Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) in Syracuse, NY.  This event attracted more than two hundred teams from the Central New York area.  The MCC STEP students competed in the category III.   

The STEP students enjoyed the Build’Em & Bust’Em competition and are excited to compete again next year.  Attached is a picture of the STEP students with their Coach, Maurice Carter (MCC CSTEP Student, LA05). 

STEP is funded by a grant from the NYS Education Department to increase the number of historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students prepared to enter college, and improve their participation rate in mathematics, science, technology, health related fields and the licensed professions.