You CAN Do It: Engineering for a Good Cause
The Society for Design Administration (SDA) has come up with an engineering competition that helps feed the hungry. In Canstruction®, builders create giant structures made of cans filled with food. After their works are exhibited, the cans are sent to food banks, soup kitchens and other charitable places. The competition has already distributed over 10 million pounds of food.
One of the 2008 National Winners – Image from canstruction.org
This competition couldn’t come at a better time. The United States Department of Agriculture released Monday its Food Security Report for 2008, which examines the number of Americans that are going hungry, as well as which groups are particularly affected.
According to the Washington Post, “In 2008, the report found, nearly 17 million children — more than one in five across the United States — were living in households in which food at times ran short, up from slightly more than 12 million children the year before. And the number of children who sometimes were outright hungry rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million.”
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