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designersput teamworkand creativity toward addressing local hunger

KAY BLOUGHBYSpecial to Newsday

Peaches, tuna and corn.Sardines, yams andpink salmon. Thoseingredients are bestkept separate at the

dinner table, but they were awinning combination at the10th annual Canstruction LongIsland competition, wherethousands of cans of food aredonated to feed the hungry.

Visitors can see the flights ofdesign imagination and struc-tural ingenuity on display atRXR Plaza in Uniondale from8 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and votefor their favorite with a can offood. The canned goods —51,794 cans were used this year— bring 13 designs to life in

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JUROR’S FAVORITE. The team from H2M architects + engineers created “Found Dory, Now Let’s Find a Solution to Hunger” using salmon and tuna cans and bottled water.

ON THE COVER A team fromJohn W. Baumgarten ArchitectPC impressed the judges with aPokémon-themed structure.

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sculptural structures built toaddress hunger on Long Island.

“The creativity from year toyear keeps amazing me,” saidTracy Lobdell, executive direc-tor and treasurer of the localchapter of the nonprofitCanstruction and senior mar-

keting coordinator at Green-man-Pedersen Inc., a consult-ing engineering and construc-tion management firm in Baby-lon. “The teams keep comingup with unique and differentideas and concepts people canrelate to.”

Cans of pink salmon helpMelville-based H2M architects+ engineers’ structure depictthe title character from “Find-ing Nemo,” while the blue oftuna labels brings Dory to life.And many, many cans ofpeaches make Pikachu in Jeri-

cho-based John W. BaumgartenArchitect’s Pokémon-inspiredstructure.

Members of the SpectorGroup team have been partici-pating since the Canstruction

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Contestantsand theWinners’Circle

PROFESSIONALGROUPS

] “Found Dory, Now Let’sFind a Solution to Hunger,”from H2M architects +engineers / Juror’s Favorite] “Pika-can-chu, GottaCatch ’em All,” from JohnW. Baumgarten ArchitectPC / Structural Ingenuity] “Gu-CAN-heim . . . NoCANS Left Behind,” fromJRS Architect PC, andWald-ner’s Business Environments/Honorable Mention] “It’s the Great PumpCAN,Charlie Brown!” from Lines& Designs 3D and LongIsland reSound / Best Useof Labels] “Everyone DeservesS’more Food,” from LKBConsulting Engineers / BestMeal and Most Cans] “Shine a Light on Hunger,”Nassau Community CollegeInterior Design Departmentand the Interior DesignSociety] “If You Had to Choose,”Rosenbaum Design Group] “Let’s Dunk to EndingHunger,” Spector Group

STUDENT TEAMS] “Turn the Key on Hunger,”Friends Academy /MostCANtabulous (Juror’sFavorite) and BestCANfiguration] “We CAN Feed theWorld,” Sacred Heart Acad-emy /Honorable Mention] “Lighting Up theWorld toHunger Crisis,” Temple Israelof Riverhead Youth Group /Most Cans and MostCANtastic (Best Meal)] “Like Us to End Hunger,”Temple Sinai of RoslynYouth Group / Best CAN-cept (Best Use of Labels)

COMMUNITY GROUP] “We Can’t BELLievePeople Go Hungry in theU.S.,”Girl Scout Troop 4299from Rocky Point and theParent Action CommunityYouth Program of Amityville

BEST MEAL AND MOST CANS. The team from LKB Consulting Engineers demonstrated “Everyone Deserves S’more Food.”

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The creativity fromyear to year keepsamazingme.’

— Tracy Lobdell, executive directorand treasurer of Canstruction Long Island

The Spector Group created “Let’s Dunk to Ending Hunger”—oversized Oreos and a glass of milk to dip them in.

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LKB team members build the tent from the bottom up. Thecompleted campsite scene used 7,140 cans.

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Long Island chapter was formed in2006. Team member Joe Suserman,a project architect at the Woodburyarchitecture and design firm, re-members when the company tookpart in earlier Canstruction compe-titions, with Spector’s 1998 lightbulb structure, “Food for Thought,”going on to compete at the nationallevel. This year’s design of a glassof milk and stacks of Oreo cookies,“Let’s Dunk to Ending Hunger,”went together easily on Oct. 26, thenight the 13 teams filled the atriumat RXR Plaza to build their designs.

Each professional teamgets a10-by-10-foot sectionmarked off withtape, and its structure can reach up to10 feet in height; student teams get a7-square-foot footprint with a 5-footheight limit. Up to 10 teammemberscan help over the course of the build,but only fivemembers stack at atime.

Some of the groups buildingstructures set up cameras to taketime-lapse photos so they couldlater post videos on their webpage.Jennifer Murray, whose handbell-ringing group, Long Island re-Sound, participated for its secondyear, added a soundtrack of thegroup ringing “Linus and Lucy,” theinformal theme song for CharlieBrown, when she edited the video,then posted it to reSound’s website.

The student team from FriendsAcademy in Locust Valley built agumball machine out of cans, call-ing it “Turn the Key on Hunger.”The school’s participation in thecompetition “started as an engineer-ing club project and morphed intoa community service-based club,”said Amy Geiger, 17, of Dix Hills, asenior in her third year on theteam. Students used plywood withthe edges painted red for supportbetween layers, and taped tunacans in a circle to look like coins.

“The real challenge was findingcans that are colorful enough forgumballs,” Geiger said. “We lookedfor the boldest colors.”

Bounty to food pantriesAll the cans used in the sculp-

tures and collected at the show willbe donated to four Long Islandfood pantries, with the bulk of thefood split among Interfaith Nutri-tion Network, Island Harvest andLong Island Cares. For space rea-sons, Lobdell said, a smalleramount will go to NEST, or NassauEmpowerment and Support forTomorrow, at Nassau CommunityCollege.

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BEST CAN-FIGURATIONAND MOSTCANTABULOUS.FriendsAcademystudents chosebright labels tocreate a gumballmachine to“Turn the Keyon Hunger.”

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Building up to diminish hunger

BEST USE OF LABELS. Lines & Designs 3D LLC and Long Island reSoundcreated a double-sided sculpture called “It’s the Great PumpCAN, CharlieBrown!” It features Charlie and Lucy on one side and Snoopy on the other.

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Nassau Community College interior designstudents and the Interior Design Society created alighthouse to “Shine a Light on Hunger.”

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HONORABLE MENTION. In itstwo-sided sculpture,“Gu-CAN-Heim . . . No CANSLeft Behind,” JRS Architects/Waldner’s Business Environmentscaptured the curves of theGuggenheim Museum, and, onthe reverse, depicted a rainbow ofcharacters. HONORABLE MENTION. Sacred Heart Academy students, with help from

mentor Bruce Mawhirter, created a spoon with food in the shape of a globeand called it “We CAN Feed the World.”

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Winners were named at an Oct. 27ceremony at RXR Plaza, with awardsgiven in the professional and studentcategories.

Visitors to the exhibit can vote on aPeople’s Choice winner in both cate-gories by placing cans in the donationbins in front of their favorite struc-tures. The names of the winners willbe posted on Canstruction Long Is-land’s Facebook page on Nov. 15, Lob-dell said.

This year, a combined communitygroup of Senior Girl Scout Troop 4299fromRocky Point and the Parent ActionCommittee Inc. of Amityville, a groupthat focuses on helping at-risk youths,workedwithmentor JanMurray, of Lines&Designs 3D, a freelanceCADDdesignand 3-Dmodeling firm inMastic.

“When you share a common goallike that, it really does cement relation-ships,” Murray said. “And when yourstructure helps people, when it makes3,335 meals, it’s the real deal. It meanssomething.”

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Girl Scout Troop 4299 and Parent ActionCommunity Youth Program struck justthe right note with “We CAN’t BELLievePeople Go Hungry in the U.S.”

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Designers’ can-do attitude

BEST CANCEPT. Temple Sinai of Roslyn’s Youth Group won smiles from the judgeswith “Like Us to End Hunger.”

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MOSTCANTASTIC.The TempleIsrael ofRiverhead YouthGroup fashioneda menorah for itssculpture, called“Lighting Up theWorld to HungerCrisis.”

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