We had quite a few visitors on the first day as well, but on Friday at least twice as many of you came and showed interest, for which we are very grateful! We hope that our students and instructors were able to provide you with a lot of useful information and that you also liked the interesting things at our stand.
One such event was our Pasta Bridge-building demonstration, scheduled for 2 p.m. The competition of building bridges out of pasta has a long-standing tradition at the Bánki Faculty; the task is for our students to build bridges or load-bearing structures from 1 kg of commercially available pasta under strict rules, and these are tested with a machine designed and built for this purpose by Professor Zoltán Laky to determine the load-bearing capacity of the structures. Most of the structures, which often end with a loud crack, are not only built for our in-house competitions but also for the RECCS Pasta Bridge World Championship, organized by the Bánki Faculty of Óbuda University, where student competitors from all over the world participate.
The demonstration at Educatio yielded impressive results. The student trio of Mátyás Pompor, Péter Kovács, and László Schäffer, who also participated in last year’s final in-house competition, improved their result this time – while their structure achieved a load-bearing capacity of 313.9 kg then, their structure named “Beambi” withstood 385.1 kg this time. Péter Várkonyi and Áron Dósa’s structure, “Kázmér,” held up to 182.9 kg, while Nándor Unyi’s bridge structure, “Kop 2,” withstood 64.5 kg. Congratulations to our students for the excellent demonstration!
