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Winning!
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University of Wisconsin-Madison teams took home an armful of first-place awards at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Great Lakes Regional Conference competitions held in May in Indiana.
Both the concrete canoe and steel bridge teams took first place in their overall competitions, which pit teams from throughout the Midwest. The competitions were held May 1-4 at the University of Evansville. (See the steel bridge team story in this issue.)
The concrete canoe team's win was accomplished through first-place finishes in several of the categories and races that comprise the overall competition. The canoe team finished first in the men's and women's sprint races, the men's and women's distance races, the coed sprint race, and in the canoe presentation competition. The canoe team's technical paper finished second.
UW-Madison's Concrete Canoe Team outperformed its competition at the Great Lakes Regional Conference championships held at the University of Evansville, Indiana. The canoe teams are judged on canoe deign and technical papers, as well as how the canoe competed in races. |
The concrete canoe team will move on to the national concrete canoe competition, to be held this summer in Philadelphia.
In addition, teams from UW-Madison's ASCE chapter also took first place at the Great Lakes Regional Conference in the concrete bat, balsa bridge and environmental clean-up competitions.