Otsego Middle School has some pictures of students with bridges to give you some ideas.

 Toothpick Bridges   is a fifth grade site but it has a number of good pictures of basic bridge designs.

Capital Day School's Bridges offer some designs like ours.  A good place for ideas. 

 Physics Balsa Bridge Building Contest is from British Columbia in Canada.  They also used balsa wood rather than toothpicks but there are a lot of pictures in this site.  There's also a cool animated .gif file of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

 Chris's World is a personal web site by a winning Bridge Builder.  Check out his flashy intro and also his bridge.  Cris's use of diagonals is very similar to the way temporary bridges are built by the military.

Mr. Lewis' Physics Class Mr. Lewis teaches Physics & Biology at Mt. Juliet High School in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee has mounted a massive site of toothpick bridges as well as other interesting projects.  It also has a serious "Pop-Up" problem.  Kind of like playing Whack-A-Mole, but the pictures are worth it. Check out his  Bridge Designs page!!

McKnight Middle School These bridges have some elegant designs.  They are not cunstructed using the same rules we do, but check out their deisgns.

Garden Spot High School in South Dakota came up with some interesting designs.  Check out how they laminated toothpicks to make larger beams and pieces.

Hong Kong International High School  is building a different kind of bridge this year, but the pictures at the bottom of this page might give you some ideas.  Notice that a lot of their bridges do not give you room for a boat under the bridge.  Why do you think that the student designers put the long pieces accross the bottom of their bridge.

Eastside Union High School, San Jose, CA These students were part of an Advanced Placement Physics class.  These bridges look very strong.  Notice that there is no place for a roadway on these bridges.

Morehead State University, Minnisota  Explore this site.  There is an excellent description of how to build laminated beams here.  some interesting designs, too.

Japan Aviation Technical College  These bridges show the artistic and design values of Japanese culture.  Notice how the toothpicks have been laminated into round beams similar to bamboo.  Making Straight Sticks tells how they did it.  Check out the past winners page for some beautiful designs!

Bridges.This is a good start to look at real bridges and designs for real bridges.

Godden Structural Engineering Slide Library  has lots of pictures of real bridges and other structures that use bridge building principals.

 Bridge Construction and Engineering Home is from profession bridgebuilding engineers. It includes a lot of links to bridge construction projects.  These might be helpful for your designs.

 Brueckenbau-Links   is a massive data base of bridge designs, bridge pictures, and other bridge stuff.  Unfortunately, most of it is in German.

NOVA Online | Super Bridge | Build a Bridge This is a NOVA science Web site which contains a Shockwave plug-in for designing a bridge to span one of four crossings: an ocean bay, a river, a freeway, and a gorge.  It takes a fast computer to play the game.  The  NOVA Online | Super Bridge | Resources page has many links to real bridge building organizations.