Cardboard Canoe contest to be held on September 8th

Members of the WPI community are invited to enter a Cardboard Canoe Contest on Friday, Sept. 8, in Institute Park. The Mechanical Engineering Department and the WPI Student Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers is sponsoring the contest, which challenges participants to build a canoe out of a refrigerator box and duct tape. The sponsors will provide the boxes and the tape, as well as knives, scissors, paper, and pencils.

Beginning at 11:30am, each four- to eight-person team will have ten minutes to prepare a sketch of their canoe and 35 minutes to build a two-person craft. For the race, which will begin at 12:15, contestants will be required to use their hands to paddle their canoes in Institute Pond for approximately 50 yards. A panel of judges will present awards for speed, seaworthiness, artistic expression and effort. A free barbecue for contestants will begin at noon.


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