Engineers award inventive artists

COLUMBUS -- Victor Scott, a second-grader at Springfield Local Elementary School in New Middletown, placed first in the statewide Imagine Engineering Coloring Contest sponsored by the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers.
Megan Banks, a second-grader at St. Charles School in Boardman, placed third in the contest.
Victor, the son of Amy and Jim Scott, won the contest by drawing and coloring a picture of a professional engineer at a job site reviewing his plans for an apartment building. In the background, Victor drew a worker putting the final element of the building in place. The first place prize is a telescope.
Megan, daughter of Cathy and Jack Banks, drew three engineers admiring things they've designed: a building, a satellite dish and a car. A fourth engineer sits at a computer and completes her engineering plans. The engineers Megan drew are unusual: They're felines. The third place prize is an electronic math game.
Two winners, one region
"This is unusual," says Scott Sands, P.E., president of the society. "This is the first year we've had two winners in the same area of the state."
The second place winner this year is Heather Williams from Our Lady of Lourdes School in Cincinnati.
The OSPE was founded in 1878 to promote ethical professional conduct and increase professional and engineering education standards. Today, OSPE is Ohio's leading professional engineering organization, representing all disciplines and divisions of the engineering practice.