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| Title | Tech Concrete Canoe Team Readies For Nationals |
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| Transcript | SDSM&T News 501 E. St. Joseph Street • Rapid City, SD 57701-3995 Phone: (605) 394-6082/2554 • Fax: (605) 394-6177 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2002 Contact: Steve Buchholz, Public Information Manager, 394-6082 Tech Concrete Canoe Team Readies For Nationals The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology's concrete canoe team leaves Rapid City at 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, for the concrete canoe national championships in Madison, Wis. The team will practice racing one last time at 7 p.m. today (Tuesday, June 18), at Canyon Lake. The three-day national championship runs from Friday, June 21, through Monday, June 24. The Tech team will compete and race in the competition with its canoe named "Blue Flame" against 25 teams from universities with the best engineering programs in the country. The team's canoe will be judged on appearance, weight, presentation, and races in men's sprint and endurance, women's sprint and endurance, and co-ed. "We're excited about our chances this year, " team co-chair Patrick Schwickerath said. Schwickerath is a Civil and Environmental Engineering major from Newton, Iowa. "We've got a good canoe, a solid team and a lot of experience." The Tech team qualified for nationals by winning the concrete canoe portion of the 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers Rocky Mountain Region Conference held in April. Tech has won the regional competition 13 of the past 15 years. The team finished fifth in last year's national championship, and won the event in 1995. The Tech team designed and built the canoe from scratch, building on the successes and failures of past teams. "Designing a canoe made mostly of concrete is not much different then the everyday challenges these students will face as the future designers and builders of our infrastructure, " H. Gerard Schwartz, Jr. president of the American Society of Civil -more- -page 2- Engineers, an event sponsor, said. "Civil engineers are continually tasked with the responsibility of making the impossible possible for the betterment of society." Far from the floating bathtubs you might envision, concrete canoes competing at the national level typically resemble Fiberglas racing canoes and boast sophisticated designs aimed at achieving the best combination of speed and maneuverability. Many of the canoes weigh less than those constructed of traditional materials and feature walls only ¼-inch thick. "When you consider that students have been competing at the national level for only 15 years, it's amazing how they have pushed the technology envelope to achieve designs with such impressive speed and maneuverability, " Mike Shydlowski, president and chief executive officer of Master Builders, another sponsor, said. "These talented, young competitors prove year after year that concrete is indeed a versatile and durable building material." SATELLITE MEDIA TOUR: On Friday, June 21, 2002, media outlets can conduct satellite interviews with Tech student teams competing in the national concrete canoe competition in Madison, Wis. ** B-Roll footage of the concrete canoe competition will be available at the following satellite coordinates at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Feed Time: 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. Coordinates: Ku-band satellite (analog) on AMC2/Ge2 (Transponder 1K) Reporters who want to interview students should call ConnectLive at (202) 513-1010 to schedule interviews. For information about the competition or the Satellite Media Tour, contact Norida Torriente at (202) 326-5129 or on her cell phone at (202) 253-5058. Visit the competition web site at www.cae.wisc.edu/~asce150. #30# |
| Creator | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. University Relations |
| Subject | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; |
| Local Subject | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Concrete canoe
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| Digital Publisher | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Devereaux Library
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| Contributors | Buchholz, Steve; |
| Date | 2002-06-18 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Language | eng |
| Relation | Is part of Office of University Relations SDSM&T News Collection |
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| Submitting Institution | Devereaux Library. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. |
| Date Digital | 2009 |
| CONTENTdm number | 5126 |
| CONTENTdm file name | 6089.pdf |
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