Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Ominous popping sounds can be heard as the bridge's cross-bracing tears away from its superstructure.
Disaster is imminent.
But Kimberly March shows no mercy. An increasingly powerful dead weight, the bucket hangs from her toothpick bridge. And that' s exactly the point in this class of 14 students. Demolishing what took weeks to design and build isn't easy. That's because in December, Massachusetts became the first state in the US to require engineering in K-12 curriculum.