Grants & Model Bridge Update

Hi Folks:

As we keep moving forward with our funding, we have some big milestone grant filings coming up this month. Next week we file for the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Media Makers Grant. Its a big one worth $800,000! This one grant would finish our funding requirements, so everyone keep us in your prayers and pray we get it.  It's a very competitive grant and they only fund 17% of the grant requests they get.  We are also filing for 15 other grants this month in hopes of hedging our bet, just in case we don't win the big NEH grant.

The model of our bridge we are shooting for the documentary is almost done. It has been a HUGE and complicated project for Damian at Mainline Bridges to complete and has taken him much longer then he expected. He has been working with Dr. Dario Gasparini, Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University's engineering department on the design. He has also been studying the many plans and photos we sent him to build a bridge that's not only accurate to the real bridge, but will also look real on camera.

I have been getting photos from Damian over the building process and have been posting them on our website here: http://www.engineeringtragedy.com/The_Model_Bridge.html so check them out. The latest ones are on the bottom of the page.

Hopefully in the next few weeks the bridge will be shipped to us and we can then finish building our outdoor set.

We also have some new team members I need to tell you about, but that will have to wait till my next blog. I have to finish these grants and get them in. :-)

Take Care!

Len Brown