Philly College Students Take Part In Gingerbread House Competition
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Students from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia took part in a gingerbread house competition on Wednesday.
Some interior design students broke up into three groups in the gingerbread-style competition. Seniors created Independence Hall, as juniors made a Frank Lloyd Wright organic modern house (complete cantilever balconies), and first year students -- a mansion.
Candy and cookies were utilized. The walls were incorporating graham crackers. Wait, where's the gingerbread?
"Well, they are in the middle of finals so they don't have time to bake all of the gingerbread," said assistant professor Francine Martini. "So we are using graham crackers instead of gingerbread."
Each group was armed with a strategy and an ugly sweater to psych-out their competitors. But one group's plan was a little different from the other two tables.
"We are putting all of the decorations on the ground first and then building it from there so the gravity doesn't pull everything down," explained senior Ashley Matthews.
This wasn't just any gingerbread-style competition. These students had schematic, complete with a floor plan and elevations. And, unfortunately, they weren't eatable.
"No, I would thing not," said Martini. "By the time the hot glue is dry, I don't think it would be eatable."
The college's president, Cecelia Fitzgibbon, says they'll be donating the house to their senior citizen neighbors living at the facility across the street.
"We are being good neighbors. There are seniors that live in their units there and they have a fabulous program there in their lobby, "[We're] putting a smile on everyone's face during the holidays."
It was a close competition, but the winning team was the juniors with their Frank Lloyd Wright "falling water" house.
