edible cars

Aiden is loving cars lately, but it's hard to believe that cars overflowed into my work life lately. I had quite a week hosting the Food Network's Glutton for Punishment on campus. He was here to compete in our Edible Car Competition. The engineering challenge was to take provided ingredients (that are almost all vegetables) and create a car that has at least three working wheels. The car that goes the farthest and looks the best wins! The winning car rolled nearly 174 feet! That is some serious engineering. Having the film crew there was quite an experience, and they recorded me (minus my expected nervous laughter) at a local farm picking out the produce and being interviewed by the host about the rules. We won't see anything until April, but it will be interesting to see how they narrow nearly 50 hours of coverage into a 22 minutes.

Here are tons and tons of photos from the actual event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brownengin/sets/72157622578504815/