Come on down! You could be one of the first contestants on the Roads & Bridges Lightning Round.
Roads & Bridges is launching our game show today. Hosted by yours truly, it is a three-phase competition with two divisions: one for college students majoring in engineering and another for young professionals who have not yet earned their professional engineering license.
Episodes will be recorded over Zoom, and the shows will air on our website bimonthly.
Here’s how it works: Most road and bridge construction projects are organized into distinct phases, and our game show is no different. Phase 1 takes place at the beginning of the month, while Phases 2 and 3 take place at the end.
During Phase 1, a group of contestants (10–15 people) will join me on a Zoom call. The session will be recorded as contestants are asked 10 questions related to engineering and road and bridge trivia. When the dust settles, the two contestants with the highest scores advance to Phase 2.
In the month’s second episode, those top two contestants square off in Phase 2. I will ask five questions, and the first to answer three correctly advances to Phase 3 — the Roads & Bridges Lightning Round.
That contestant is given 60 seconds to answer as many questions correctly as possible.
The recorded episodes will then be published on the Roads & Bridges website.
The Lightning Round will feature two divisions: College Students and Young Professionals. And will there be a tournament of champions? You bet.
To the victors go the spoils: Each month’s runner-up will be featured in a Q&A on the Roads & Bridges website, and the winner will be featured on an episode of the Infrastructure Technology Podcast.
Each month’s winner and runner-up will also have the opportunity to join some of the industry’s most influential thought leaders by writing an opinion article for an upcoming issue of Roads & Bridges.
(Not everyone is a writer, so this is optional.)
To be eligible, you must fall into one of two categories: a college student majoring in engineering or a recent graduate with an engineering degree who has not yet earned a professional engineering license.
Does this sound like you? To be invited to an upcoming Phase 1 recording, please click here and register.
About the Author
Gavin Jenkins, Head of Content
Head of Content
Gavin Jenkins is an award-winning journalist based in Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, VICE, Narrative.ly, Prevention, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Beijing Review.
In 2020, two stories he wrote for Pitt Med Magazine earned three Golden Quill Awards from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania. “Surviving Survival” won Excellence in Corporate, Marketing and Promotional Communications – Written, Medical/Health, while “Oct. 27, 2018: Pittsburgh’s Darkest Day, and the Mass Casualty Response” won Excellence in Written Journalism, Magazines – Medical/Health, as well as the Ray Sprigle Memorial Award: Magazines, a Best in Show award.
After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in 2003, he covered sports for the Bedford Gazette, in Bedford, Pa., and the Martinsville Bulletin, in Martinsville, Va. In 2006, he returned to Pittsburgh to write for Trib Total Media. Based out of the Kittanning Leader Times, he worked for the Trib for two years, and then he moved to Shenzhen, China, to teach English and freelance. After two years in China, he earned an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh.
When he's not at work, he's usually playing with his border-collie mix, Bob.