CORVALLIS, Ore. – An Oregon State University engineer is pioneering a project that enables middle school children to design, build and test tsunami shelters in the classrooms of rural and coastal Oregon schools.
The Tsunami Shelter Challenge aims to increase the technology skills of students by enhancing those of their teachers. The two-year program began in January, funded in part by a $75,000 grant from Symantec Corporation, and was created by Rozeanne Steckler, director of education at the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering at OSU, along with engineering professors Mike Bailey and Harry Yeh.
