TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Five girl scouts from Tulsa will meet President Barack Obama to present their plan for a flood-proof bridge at the White House Science Fair.
The girls, 6-year-old Avery Dodson and 8-year-olds Natalie Hurley, Miriam Schaffer, Claire Winton and Lucy Claire Sharp of Girl Scout Troop 2612 built a model for the bridge based on the recent damaging floods in Estes Park, Colorado. The girls are the only girl scouts in the nation at the fair.
The flood-proof bridge model the girls designed mechanizes the bridge with motors and gears in the correct ratios. A computer program developed by the girls would cause the bridge to retract when flood conditions set in through a motion sensor in the river bed.