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Earlier this month, a group of SMU students spent a weekend trying to top the current Guinness World Record of 103 feet using Superstructs, a building set that works like the old Tinker Toys I used to have.
Five teams created 20-ft.-tall (or bigger) prototypes. The winners (students Michelle Kim, Caleb Pool, Drew Halverstadt, and Christina Chase) came up with a 35-ft.-tall octagon structure. They'll be flown to Washington, D.C., to oversee construction of the full-scale design at the National Building Museum next September.
The contest was sponsored by toy manufacturer WABA fun, in conjunction with the SMU Lyle School of Engineering.
Watch a video intro of the contest below.
Source: SMU
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