Our goal was to create a polymer network that was shelfstable and would gel in response to force. First, we created a suite of polymers with varying crosslinker to comonomer ratios. Shielded and control copolymers were synthesized using RAFT polymerization of PEGMA (molecular shielder, grafting-through process ) or MEMA (control) with GMA monomers. Poly(GMA-co-PEGMA) and poly(GMA-co-MEMA) were synthesized with varying monomer ratios (30:70 GMA:PEGMA/MEMA to 70:30 GMA:PEGMA/MEMA) and shield lengths (1, ~10, and ~20 PEG repeats for MEMA, PEGMA500, and PEGMA950, respectively) to determine their effect on gelation. Additionally, DP for each composition was varied to determine the effect of polymer length on force sensitivity.