Sunday, July 24, 2005

The Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race

The Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race is a competition put on by the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.

The purpose of the competition is to design a toboggan of which the running surface (whatever touches the snow) must be made of concrete. Each year teams and their toboggans are judged on concrete design, brake design, reinforcement design, toboggan aesthetics, speed, stopping distance, and team spirit.

The competition includes a technical expo where teams display their toboggan and technical paper and, of course, the race. The competition is held at various universities in Canada in the beginning of each year.

Where is Dangerous Dave when you need him?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Just to advise that Jason and I went and bought some general groceries on the weekend. Things like cereal, toilet paper,dishwasher stuff, jam, vegemite etc . . (jason - I have the reciept to check that you don't eat any of the food before we go).


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