Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Hastings, you’ll find a built-to-scale replica of the original Dakota County courthouse made from about 5,000 perfectly placed ...

Cameron Hagen adds more weight to the bucket being held up by her group’s toothpick bridge Tuesday in her science class at Chippewa Falls Middle School. The seventh-grade students tested bridges they ...

Middle and high school students in the San Antonio Prefreshman Engineering Program demonstrated their bridge-building skills on a miniature level Wednesday. Two-person teams were instructed to build a ...

“I remember when the kids went to school, they would build a little bridge out of toothpicks and the teachers would put weights on them and see how much weight they could hold,” he said. “I thought, ...