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Renee Frohnert, MEng \u201919, and her teammate raced against the clock to craft designs that were both tasty and structurally sound<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Renee Frohnert on the new Netflix show “Baking Impossible.” At left is the chocolate-covered, cake-based boat that she and her teammate created for the first challenge. (Photo provided by Netflix)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her audition video for Netflix’s new baking-engineering competition show \u201cBaking Impossible<\/a>,\u201d Renee Frohnert, MEng \u201919, baked a batch of cupcakes and took a bite out of one, then attached it to a rocket, which she proceeded to launch nearly 400 feet into the air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demonstration\u2014which she introduced by first assembling the rocket\u2014was meant to show her engineering acumen, creativity, and basic baking skills for what she excitedly announced as \u201cspace cakes!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the cake-and-rocket combo didn\u2019t quite leave Earth\u2019s atmosphere (it likely landed on the roof of a nearby building, she says), the audition\u2014and Frohnert\u2019s passion for the assignment\u2014did garner her a spot on the show, which premiered on the streaming service in early October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eight-episode series pairs bakers and engineers in timed competitions that require their creations to meet both cooking, design, and engineering challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frohnert (right) and her teammate, a baker from Florida. (Photo provided by Netflix)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Nine baker-engineer paired teams (dubbed \u201cbakineers\u201d)\u2014who had never met before\u2014had to quickly figure out how to work together and harness their separate skill sets, while keeping design, taste, innovation, and structural soundness in mind for each challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

(Only mild spoilers follow\u2014all eight episodes <\/a>are<\/a> available<\/a> to Netflix subscribers, and you\u2019ll have to watch for yourself to learn how Frohnert and her partner fared.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me, the entire experience, especially coming from the engineering world, was really eye-opening,\u201d says Frohnert, who was paired with Steve, a 62-year-old professional baker from Florida. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize how much engineering actually goes into baking.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first challenge, the teams had nine hours to build a cake-based boat\u2014at least two feet long with at least one sail, a 4.8-volt servo motor, and a rudder\u2014that would have to navigate a 20-foot water course in less than 45 seconds in 7 knots of wind. Frohnert and Steve decided to use chocolate for the entire exterior of the boat due to its waterproof properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ultimately, it also got me out of my comfort zone, which can be really important.<\/p>\nRenee Frohnert, MEng \u201919<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Frohnert says she and Steve both had to \u201creally quickly jump in and learn from each other.\u201d Steve gave her a crash course in how to temper chocolate, and she ended up tempering 50 pounds of it for their boat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In return, she taught him how to calculate buoyancy and water displacement. Their boat floated beautifully, a testament to its engineered structure (not everyone\u2019s crafts stayed upright), although the water course itself posed additional hurdles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For subsequent challenges, Frohnert had to design\u2014and redesign\u2014numerous engineered machines and elements for assignments like creating a wearable and edible fashion piece for a runway show; a playable miniature golf course made from dessert materials; and a baked cityscape featuring a five-foot-tall skyscraper that would be put to the test of withstanding a simulated earthquake on a shake table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show’s time constraints and other entertainment-focused parameters necessitated skipping a lot of what would typically be extensive design and testing phases for any engineer, going \u201cstraight to the build phase,\u201d she explains\u2014something very different from the typical rigorous process of systems engineering. \u201cBut ultimately, it also got me out of my comfort zone, which can be really important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frohnert was the invited student speaker for the College of Engineering\u2019s Systems Engineering Program\u2019s 2019 commencement ceremony, held in Sage Chapel. (Photo by E. Jacob Cornelius)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Frohnert showed a keen interest in engineering from an early age. At seven, she learned from her dad how to take a car transmission apart, clean it, and reassemble it, and she worked on cars in their garage throughout her childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She got her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at Penn State and was hired at Lockheed Martin Space. She entered the company\u2019s engineering leadership development program and headed to Silicon Valley, where she worked on electrical components for the Orion spacecraft as part of NASA\u2019s Artemis program<\/a>, which aims to establish a sustainable presence on the Moon to prepare for human exploration missions to Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While continuing to work full time, she enrolled in Cornell\u2019s systems engineering master\u2019s program as a distance-learning student. In the meantime, Frohnert had found an additional interest\u2014speaking to groups about aerospace and spacecraft, and about how women can thrive within traditionally male-dominated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has more than 15,000 followers on Instagram<\/a>, many of them \u201cwomen in STEM who are trying to navigate the field,\u201d Frohnert says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She discovered this calling at Penn State, where, as one of only three women out of about 200 students in the electrical engineering program, she joined the Society of Women Engineers. At Cornell, she was thrilled to find a far more equal gender balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frohnert (right of center in blue Cornell sweatshirt), along with the rest of her team, watch the robot they built in just one week as it embarks on a series of 11 challenges at the SYSEN 5920 competition on campus in 2017. (Photo by Patrick Gillespie)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cornell Engineering hit a much-publicized milestone<\/a> right around that time: in fall 2018, women comprised half of the incoming undergraduate Class of 2022. It was the first engineering college of its size\u2014and stature\u2014to reach gender parity. \u201cThat was a huge stat\u2014I was so proud,\u201d Frohnert says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Frohnert works for L3Harris Space & Airborne Systems business development group in San Diego. She recently completed a scientist-astronaut training program with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences and earned an MBA from the University of Southern California, focusing on entrepreneurship and business leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frohnert says she would eventually like to start her own engineering or aerospace business, create some type of nonprofit to inspire and support women and other underrepresented communities in STEM, or even develop a kids\u2019 TV show\u2014no word yet on whether it will include a bakineering competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Published: October 19, 2021; updated June 29, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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