The final day of PSWC 2013 included the Steel Bridge competition, the Geotechnical competition, Concrete Bowling and Horseshoes, the Soccer tournament, and the award ceremony.
Steel bridge photos are by Lance Hill.
The first competition of the days was concrete bowling/horseshoes. 
We were disqualified from bowling because we didn’t know there was a weight limit, and we didn’t have enough team members anyway, so we headed over to the horseshoes event. 
We won one point in horseshoes, with only one concrete horseshoe breaking, beating our direct opponents 1-0! 
Meanwhile, the steel bridge competition was beginning at Pardee Plaza 
The steel bridge team talks with the judges. 
The team strategizes 
The clock starts! 
The team assembles the bridge. 
Another view of bridge assembly, 
Final assembly. 
Judges evaluate our work. 
Our cheering section! 
The team adds the load to the bridge 
loading the bridge 
loading the bridge 
loading the bridge 
loading the bridge 
The bridge is evaluated, with Mudd Hall in the background 
Our bridge team captains discuss the competition 
the team rests during judging 
The bridge team poses in front of Mudd Hall 
Team members pose on the bridge 
Meanwhile, the Geotechnical design competition occurred at e-quad. 
Our team prepares for competition. 
Since we were hosting, several USC ASCE members were recruited to aid in judging. 
Our team prepares to cut up their paper. 
Our team at work. 
Other schools load their designs with sand. 
The competition involves creating a retaining wall out of paper that can hold both static and dynamic loads. 
The CBU box, just after its failure during dynamic loading. 
Our team begins to load the 500 pound of sand into the box 
loading sand 
There’s a strategy to ensuring the sand settles an condenses as much as possible. 
Another school places their wall into their box. 
Our team continues loading 
The competition had many onlookers, with four schools competing at a time. 
We finish up our loading. 
Scoping out the intended position of the static load. 
When we took the box side off, our wall held! 
The wall held well with only minor leakage past the one-minute deadline 
Then it failed very soon after, before additional load could be applied. 
However, we did much better than in past years 
The 2013 Geotech Team in competition at PSWC 
While each team was responsible for filling their box with sand, we had to move it back into a pile after every school finished since we ran the event. 
Our team poses with their technical board. 
Other teams compete 
Other teams compete 
Other teams compete 
Other teams compete 
the competition from afar 
Other teams compete 
Other teams compete 
A very successful design! 
We were in a pretty nice spot for the competition 
Some schools brought huge cheering sections 
After the competition, we had to carry all of the sand back out. 
The bricks got some nice fresh sand between them 
After the award ceremony in the evening, the environmental team poses with their first-place trophy 
All of the USC ASCE 2013 PSWC participants after the award ceremony.