GM engineer makes award-winning gingerbread houses

Woman with elaborate homemade gingerbread house — General Motors engineer Donna Rorabaugh has been making gingerbread houses since she was 13. (GENERAL MOTORS)

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October 31, 2024 10:00 AM

Outside of her job designing the processes that General Motors uses to build vehicles, engineer Donna Rorabaugh assembles creations from a decidedly nonautomotive grade material: gingerbread.

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