Talking with Roma Agrawal

Structural engineer Roma Agrawal brings her career expertise and her passion for making engineering exciting to kids around the world in this illustrated nonfiction look at the technology behind some of the most interesting buildings in the world.

Aryssa Damron

Roma Agrawal is a working engineer and advocate for increasing diversity in the field. She is the author of Built: The Hidden Stories behind Our Structures, for adult readers, as well as How Was That Built? The Stories behind Awesome Structures, the companion title for middle-graders. She credits her childhood interest in Legos and breaking things as instrumental in her career path and speaks around the world to encourage that sort of exploration in future generations. Below, Agrawal talks to us about her first book for young readers and the fascinating ways that structural engineering can reach children in the classroom and the library. Damron: Congratulations on the publication of How Was That Built! In 2019, you wrote a book for adults about structures. How did you come to adapt this topic for…

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