- Narrator: With each life-changing creation, like the International Space Station, engineers enhance the human experience.
- Narrator: Here, engineers had a unique challenge-designing the city's tallest skyscraper at a site prone to liquefaction. The engineers solved it... from the ground up.
- Steve Burrows: Adding sticky rice and lime to the mortar, makes the mortar more elastic. It allows the wall to stretch and contract depending on the temperature.
- Narrator: Engineers learn from catastrophes. New insights about the impact of wind on suspension bridges have let to better designs.
- Angelica Hernandez: But in robotics club Fredi taught us a system: define the problem, come up with different solutions, and pick the best one.
- Angelica Hernandez: Knowng that somebody believes in you, even though you don't believe in yourself, even though you doubt that you could do something... I think, you know, if you could find that in somebody, it's just-it's a blessing.
- Narrator: The word engineer means ingenious. I love being an engineer-I create things from nothing. From blank sheets of paper, I can change cities, I can change the future.
- Narrator: The joy of engineering the future belongs to the young. What better time to start dreaming BIG!
- Menzer Pelivan: Today I am a professional engineer in Seattle, hoping to make structures safer during Earthquakes.