This is too cool. Dave S. over at terry.ubc.ca launched a sustainable gingerbread house contest in mid December and in the span of a less than three weeks, was able to cull a total of 19 entries (plus one latecomer).
Anyway, here's one by Anne from Inkling, but see all of them at this easy to peruse link. See the mother load (all 85 photographs at this Flickr portal).
Thanks to everyone that played. We're currently working on luring some luminary judges (3 for 4 so far), and will get back to you regarding the winners.
You know, this was so cool, I think a Science Scout badge is in order here!
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