GARRETT DeLONG

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    GARRETT DeLONG, left, and Freeman Short, seventh-graders at Presque Isle Middle School, test the strength of their gumdrop and toothpick dome structure by placing textbooks on it during an activity hosted by Pam Buck, a civil engineer with Buck Engineering, who visited the students recently with the goal of getting them thinking about engineering, while presenting the concepts in a fun, hands-on way.