{"id":45836,"date":"2026-03-06T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=45836"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:18:48","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-200-students-compete-in-spaghetti-glue-bridge-building-at-okanagan-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=45836","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: 200+ students compete in spaghetti &#038; glue bridge-building at Okanagan College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than 200 high-school students from across the region gathered at Okanagan College for the institution\u2019s annual spaghetti bridge-building competition, a long-running event designed to test students\u2019 engineering skills using only pasta and glue.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Castnet News writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students were given two hours to design and construct bridges made entirely of spaghetti. Each structure had to span half a metre, measure no more than 200 millimetres tall and support a one-kilogram weight for at least one minute without breaking\u2026 the lightest structure would be declared the winner\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 winners of the competition will move on to the provincial championship later this year where they will compete to build the strongest spaghetti bridge in B.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castanet.net\/news\/Kelowna\/600009\/More-than-200-students-compete-in-spaghetti-bridge-building-challenge-at-Okanagan-College\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 high-school students from across the region gathered at Okanagan College for the institution\u2019s annual spaghetti bridge-building competition, a long-running event designed to test students\u2019 engineering skills using only pasta and glue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,24,22],"class_list":["post-45836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-education","tag-engineering","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45837,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45836\/revisions\/45837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}