Shipping Container Creations
- aliu
- Jan 6, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 28, 2023

For this fall’s CREATE Mentoring Competition, students designed buildings out of shipping containers to meet a community need. In addition to the design, students also had to complete a cost estimate, engineering component and trades component. Industry mentors gave the teams feedback throughout the project and judged our in-house competition to determine which two teams would go represent our class at the final competition in Sacramento.
Congrats to team Cafway: Evan Daly, Audrey Flagg, Joey Frikert, Lexi Podkhaminer, Ryan Romero Renteria and Donovan Ranta, for winning Best Physical Model!



Congrats to the San Mateo Historical Society team: Vivica Bosshard, Annie Conway, Kazuo Nakamura, Friedrich Plankensteiner, Griffin Reese, and Jayden Wan, for winning Best Presentation!





Zane Allred and Ariuka Purev-Chang also won Leadership Awards.


Thank you to our industry mentors for all their help and support!
Patrick Lerchi | Rudolph & Sletten
Kevin O’Keefe | Universal Structural Engineers
Ankur Yadav | S+B James Construction
Rita Ho | Kaiser Permanente
Phil Lucas | Swinerton
Thank you to our parent chaperones - Maya Wahyudharma, Jonathan Wan & Lisa Winter!
You can see more photos here and all the teams' slides here:



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