2011 Student Impact Project Final Awards Event

Engineers Alliance for the Arts (EAA) marked its 11th straight Student Impact Project with exceptional participation by students, volunteer engineers, teachers and dedicated donors.

In-School Program
More than 200 students from three San Francisco and two East Bay high schools participated in EAA's 10-week, in-class program. Eleven Bay Area firms provided 25 volunteer structural engineers to teach the weekly curriculum.

Volunteer Structural
Engineering Firms
ARUP
Degenkolb Engineers
Estructure
GFDS Engineers
KPW Structural Engineers, Inc.
Liftech Consultants Inc.
Nabih Youssef Associates
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Structural Vision
Tipping Mar
Walter P. Moore and Associates

Winning Teams
Every student on a winning team received a trophy. Best in Scenario winning team members also received cash awards — $100 for first place and $50 for second place — which SEAONC's generous $8,000 donation helped to fund.

(l-r): Mark Moore, SEAONC/ZFA Structural Engineers; Jax Kneppers, EAA Board President/Jax Kneppers Associates, Inc.; Ashraf Habibullah, EAA Founder/Computers & Structures, Inc.

Awards Event
EAA's 2011 Student Impact Project Awards Event was held on Saturday, May 14 at PG&E Auditorium in San Francisco. Students were asked to select one of three bridge scenarios — Marin, CA; New Orleans, LA; and Venice, Italy — and develop a viable bridge solution. Twenty-four finalists — culled from 51 total bridges — were presented and judged on a combination of viability, innovation, artistic appearance, construction and oral presentations. An eclectic panel of expert architects, artists and engineers provided a broad array of viewpoints this year:

Bill Blessing, Ratcliff Architects
Nick Bucci, Tipping Mar
Tess Kavanagh, Ratcliff Architects
Chris Killion, Aurora Theatre Company
Mark Moore, SEAONC, ZFA Structural Engineers
Dean Orr, Jensen Architects
Maryann Phipps, Estructure
Leslie Scott, On-The-Wall Community Art, Sculpture in Tile
Stephen Thomas, The Oxbow School
William Wen Don Yu, Past EAA Participant, UC Davis

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Awards Event

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