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2002-03 Nationals Photos

Practicing and touch-up outside the SDSU student center.

 

The Tufts bridge, set up in the staging area.

 

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The huddle.

 

 

The truss end pier goes into place.

After the beam has been completed, truss sections are carried out and set into place.

 

 

Handing a road deck assembly to Seth, the barge.

Securing the road deck into place required three builders to cram into the 2’ wide island.

 

 

Installing the second road deck assembly.

 

Checking to make sure all bolts have nuts before calling for the timekeeper to stop the clock.

 

 

Inspecting the bridge after the end of timed construction. No touching allowed!

 

 

Although our results wouldn’t count, we chose to run our bridge through the load testing process.

Even at Nationals, some bridges failed during load testing.

 

 

The faithful Tufts audience provided all the motivation we needed.

There was no place Jarred and Joanna would rather have been that Friday night.

 

 

Football on the San Diego beach.

 

 

Steel bridgers at the San Diego zoo.

 

Steel Bridge jumbos.

 

Jordan was kind enough to take us sailing in San Diego bay.

 

 

Underneath one very tall steel bridge – the San Diego Coronado bridge.

 

 

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