Freshman engineering students built cardboard canoes for the third-annual Cardboard Canoe Challenge, held Sunday, Oct. 6 on Lake Mary Nell. Details...
This year’s 28 engineering freshmen were divided up into six teams. Each team designed and fabricated a canoe for the race, using only 75 square feet of cardboard, one roll of duct tape and four garbage bags. The teams were judged on the design of their canoes, durability, cost of the amount of materials actually used, and the time used to complete the course.
The winning canoe this year was The Guppi, designed by Grant Sedlacek, James Garton, Jeff Spear, Matt Hobbs and Nick Harris. Rich D’Amato, director of engineering programs, said “this year’s entries were particularly inventive, including our first catamaran and a canoe with side board stabilizers. It’s amazing what you can do with a little duct tape!”