Photo Gallery: Giant Gingerbread!
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BY RACHAEL HAGERSTROM ’02
Published December 13, 2022
For the second annual Gingerbread Skyscraper Competition, some 30 students—most from the engineering department—built impressive edible towers. The event was organized by engineering liaisons Danny Joubran '24, Vivien Qiao '23, Muna Saleh '23, and Morgan Morrison '23 and judged by the engineering faculty. Awards went to the best theme, most innovative, best overall execution and the tallest, which topped out at a whopping 87 cm (2.9 feet)!
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![An engineering student building a gingerbread skyscrapers](/sites/default/files/styles/embedded_large/public/media/-news/gingerbread-tower--by-Almanzo-Gao-1000x750.jpg.webp?itok=cEYjimSI)
Photographs by Almanzo Gao ’25