Are you interested in running a local bridge design contest in your classroom, school, or community? If so, we can support your efforts by providing you with your own customized, web-based Local Contest Scoreboard.

In order to receive our support, your local contest must be scheduled during the period of time when the on-line registration and upload features of this website are operational. Thus, your local contest can begin no sooner than October 1 , 2008 and must end prior to July 1, 2009.

Here's a brief summary of the procedure for setting up a local contest. For more detailed instructions, please download the .pdf document at right.

After your local contest has ended, you may request your local winners' full names and contact information by sending e-mail to wpbedc1@gmail.com.

Last year, nearly 100 middle-school and high-school teachers organized local bridge design contests as class projects for their students. In practice, many of these projects weren't really contests; the teachers just used the Local Contest Scoreboard as a tool to keep track of their students' performance on the bridge design project.

This year, you can do it too! If you are a teacher and are using the West Point Bridge Designer for a class project, you can request a Local Contest Code by following the procedure described above. Ensure that your students enter the code when they register for the national contest. Then your web-based Local Contest Scoreboard will provide up-to-date, easily accessible feedback on your students' performance.