More than a thousand student engineers at 102 colleges and universities around the country pulled off a remarkable feat this year: They safely participated in the American Institute of Steel Construction’s Student Steel Bridge Competition, either competing from their own campuses with a fabricated and constructed physical bridge, entering a design-only Supplemental competition, or both.

The structural elements of Washington, D.C.’s International Spy Museum certainly aren’t hiding in the shadows, but rather are doing their best to attract attention. Click below to see some insightful images of this iconic addition to D.C.’s museum scene. And to read about the project, see “I Spy” in the June 2021 issue.