Englekirk School Quake 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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[lilmxcngiirl2]

um ya hahahahahha shut up dat was embarring loool mwah

[w3llon]

jenny was that u in the beggining when u bend down and u could see ur butt then ur hat flew off?? HAHAHHAHA

[lilmxcngiirl2]

hahha mine was the best lol jk i luv cdm!!!!!!!!