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Students will compete in engineering event

More than 500 middle and high school students from schools in

Anaheim and Compton will test their engineering capabilities at a

“Learning with LEGOs” competition at UC Irvine on Saturday.

Those students, who have participated in the competition, are

participants in the Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement

Program, and have spent the past month working on their individual

projects. Learning about structural engineering and architecture, the

students have built aesthetically pleasing and resilient structures

that will be tested on the university’s shake table.

Winners will be selected based on how their structures, made out

of LEGOs, are affected by the vertical, horizontal and rolling

effects experienced during an earthquake.

The competition, organized by UCI’s Department of Civil and

Environmental Engineering, will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Saturday in the Structural Engineering Test Hall in the National Fuel

Cell Research Center building on the UCI campus.

Corona del Mar race arrives on June 7

Registration continues for the 22nd annual Corona del Mar Scenic

5K Race & 2-Mile Fun Walk, taking place June 7.

The day includes separate races for men and women and a 1K Dolphin

Dash for children ages 3 to 10. Participants are also invited to

partake of “Restaurant Row,” booths set up at the race site by local

restaurants offering free samplings of their menus to runners.

Preregistration is $22; $12 for the Dolphin Dash. Enrollment is

limited. Registration on the day of the race is $30; $12 for the

Dolphin Dash. Registration forms are available through the Newport

Beach Recreation Services at (949) 644-3151 or online at www.active.com.