IPFW plans to house its 21st annual bridge building competition Saturday, Feb. 25. The event, a contest designed to ready high school students for the Fort Wayne tradition of building unnecessary bridges, will be held in the lobby of the Engineering building.
With the completion of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Bridge quickly approaching, the city of Fort Wayne believes that this contest will be a great source of new, useless bridges to construct.
Golda Ingait, director of the Fort Wayne Bridge Construction Committee, predicted that “this competition will be a great source of bridges for years to come. We all know that the children are the future. Well, in this case, the youth are the future of our bridges.”
High school senior Brook Lin agreed with Ingait, claiming that “building bridges is fun! If I could, there would be a bridge for every building, a walkway for every woman and an overpass for every old person.”
Although the event is for aspiring engineers to test their abilities and build more bridges, it has caused controversy amongst some citizens.
Parker Trails, pro-path enthusiast, protested “this city is … crazy! These people are going to end up on the next episode of Hoarders with all of their bridges. Pretty soon we’re gonna need to give them away to nearby cities.”
