School Earthquake Competition

San Diego, CA, March 26, 2007 -- Sixth-grade students from Carmel Del Mar Elementary School shrieked with unabashed amazement about 2 p.m. Tuesday at a UC San Diego earthquake-safety research complex eight miles east of campus. All but one of the seven-story buildings constructed by 20 teams of students in their classrooms toppled during Tuesday's quake test, with K'NEX rods, connectors, and building parts scattered across the surface of UCSD's largest shake table.

The noisy learning experience was part of a unique earthquake-safety competition organized by Philip Yu, a graduate student in the Jacobs School of Engineering's structural engineering department, and involved more than 1,100 fifth- and sixth-grade students from schools in Escondido and Del Mar. UCSD faculty also helped, as did scientists with the National Science Foundation, the federal agency that funded the construction of the shake facility at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center.

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• earthquake
• UCSD
• Jacobs
• Engineering
• Escondido
• Northridge
• NSF
• Englekirk
• K'NEX
• engineer

[akidnamedmikey]

hah they were screaming loud!...that wouldof been koo if they stood on the shake table hahah

[BOYKOILIEV2008]

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[sonomaboy]

Im in sixth grade this year and i am goign to the ucsd knex competition. we soo going to win case our building is more stable than theirs.

[weenascar]

im the dude in the dirty gray sweatshirt. i hated cdm

[lilmxcngiirl2]

hahahahab wifey dat was funny shut up lol

[lilmxcngiirl2]

ooo i was in that group lol cdm!!!

[w3llon]

yeea soo ish

[BostonRedSox333]

ice vid wish i had dat in 6th grade.... lucky kids these days, n sum smart kids for our future

[Calit2ube]

Nice Video Rex!