Red Rock Consulting engineers participated in Engineering Week (E-Week) 2016 by teaching kids about engineering.  Jason Unruh and Tommy Bounds assisted Mike Thompson (with Zahl Ford) in the toothpick bridge competition at the Oklahoma Science Museum in Oklahoma City.  Their job was to crush the kids’ dreams and hard work by loading the bridges until they broke.  The toothpick bridge competition is an annual event during E-Week.

Jason Unruh setting up the loading equipment

Jason Unruh & Mike Thompso

Kristi Bumpas, Robel Gibbe and Polly Sharp all went to Cross Timers Elementary to talk to pre-K and 1st grade students about engineering. The kids also enjoyed a STEM activity involving the 3 little pigs, houses and wind loads…mostly because it ended with candy…

Kristi Bumpas and the Big Bad Wolf demonstrate a wind load on the residential structure created by a pre-K student

Kristi Bumpas and Mrs. Hail’s morning pre-K class building residential structures made out of candy and toothpicks