Engineering students compete in national toboggan races
Who says sliding is just for kids? On Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, students from Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science left for Hamilton, Ontario where they competed in the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR) against 20 other teams from across in hopes of winning the national title.
The Red Green MUN Machine team consisted of 20 engineering students, most from the civil engineering discipline; however, only half of the team competed in Hamilton from Jan. 27 to 31. The team came in 19th. Fourth year civil engineering student Max Day is the team captain and says that wile they didn't do as well as they had hoped, it was a great learning experience.
“We came in 19 out of 20 teams. Even though we didn't do so well, our spirits remained high and we learned what we have to do for next year," he said.
Since 1975, GNCTR
has become the oldest and largest engineering competition in ,
challenging over 400 engineering students from across the country
to design, build, and safely race toboggans with a running surface
made entirely of concrete. For more information on the GNCTR, visit
www.gnctr2010.com.