Jeffery Lane, welding instructor, made a cradle to hold two pieces of the dinosaur's spine in place. George Kailikane, machine shop instructor, cut the pipes and Harry Kawamura, assistant dean of instruction, did the pipe bending. Some materials also used were fiberglass mold and wire, which was to be hidden from the public. The exhibit was assembled in about three weeks. There is a little bit of work that has yet to be done.
Lights still have to be installed.
I went to see the display. I came in not knowing much about dinosaurs and left knowing a lot. For instance, the three ton Stegosaurus had a very small brain, had five toes on each front foot and only three toes each on the hind legs. Behind this dinosaur in a mural backdrop of a Jurassic swamp done by Stan Oganeku. The Tyrannosaurus Rex weighed about five tons and was the largest meat-eating animal that ever lived.