Build It and Connect It: Livable Structures and Utilities Workshop with KPFF Consulting Engineers - Lacey
Explore how civil engineering and site design shape the world we live in! Students will use simple provided materials like cardboard, pipe cleaners, and tape to build their own mini-house or apartment building and connect it to the utilities that make it livable. They’ll also get to try out designing and building a storm drain system that can handle heavy rainfall without flooding the house or causing erosion. Join the design engineers of KPFF’s Lacey office to discover how civil engineering is one of the ways you can make a difference with your creativity and skills!
KPFF is a nationwide company with a civil engineering design office in Lacey, WA and our office helps developers, cities, and counties to design roads, sites, pipes, parking lots, and sidewalks (to name a few). We figure out the solutions to all kinds of challenges in our everyday world, like how to get rivers and streams under roads so that fish can pass, how to get enough water for the shower and the laundry for everyone, and how to build a parking lot that doesn’t turn into a puddle in the rain. Like most civil engineers, we love taking on challenges big and small to make sure the systems in the world around us are functional and accessible.
This Workshop is available at your school for students in grades 6-postsecondary, in the Puget Sound region in Olympia/Lacey and the surrounding South Sound area.
Only teachers, counselors, or adult staff members at a school can sign up for IGNITE events. If you are a student, please let the IGNITE Educator at your school know that you are interested in this event. If you don’t have IGNITE at your school, please email contactus@ignite-worldwide.org
Educators, be sure to take our short educator training before signing up for this event.