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- Competition Schedule for Our International Contingent -
"Concrete Canoe Fever" - 40th Anniversary of Concrete Canoeing "On the 40th anniversary of concrete canoeing, it just seems right that the frenzy returns to the Midwest where it all began." "For the Record" - Updated for 2010 "The National Concrete Canoe Competition (NCCC) has become one of the most competitive student competitions in the world and Cal Poly raised the bar more than a few notches in 2010. My prediction is that the national contingent will not tolerate such dominance and that the winners in the various categories at the 2011 NCCC will be distributed resulting in one of the closest top five finishes in history."... Stay tuned for the "The Front Line - 2011" by jag Team UAH celebrates 25th anniversary and 9th year as host of ConcreteCanoe.org Have you capitalized on our Message Board run by co-host University of Nevada Reno? Have you read the latest issue of co-host Laval's Concrete Canoe Magazine? University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) volunteers to co-host Photos/Videos
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Cal Poly - SLO Wins on Home Turf
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo emerged as the ninth school to win the U.S. Nationals and the first host school to ever win on home turf. Reno's Wolf Pack finished second followed by Canadian National Champion ETS in third. Michigan Tech finished an impressive fourth with the Wisconsin Badgers in fifth. Team UAH and Laval were sixth and seventh, respectively. ConcreteCanoe.org
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US National Coverage - ConcreteCanoe.org
The University of
Wisconsin - Madison has archived the following top design
reports from the 2010 National Concrete Canoe Competition (Nevada-Reno, Cal
Poly-SLO, UAH, Akron, and ETS).
_________________________________ Romeo High School Floats 2010 Concrete Canoe For the second year in a row, students at Romeo Engineering and Technology Center (RETC) located in Romeo, Michigan, have proven what appears to be impossible - design, build and float a canoe made of concrete.
The concrete canoe project at RETC grew this year to not only include Craig Bryant's Construction Trades and Evva Dossin's Drafting classes, but also Aleda Morr's Math-Science Math Theory and Alice Gryspeerd Biology classes. The concrete canoe is a cross-curricular project incorporating theories of science, math, design and construction all in one. Furthermore, students learned the value of teamwork and communication. Read more here. Something tells me that the national contingent will be interested in recruiting students like this. We have a couple of vacant spots on Team UAH. _________________________________
Wuhan
University of Technology
China became the most recent member of our international contingent by holding its first National Concrete Canoe Competition in Huangshi City. The competition was held as an extension of Dragon Boat competitions that have taken place annually for 20 centuries. Wuhan University of Technology won the product category and the overall Championship. But a team from Huangshi College of Technology won the men’s and women’s endurance races, and was neck to neck with Wuhan University of Technology in the co-ed sprint. The Southwestern University of Science won the design paper and oral presentation categories.
The competition was organized by Dr Weiguo Shen, an associate professor at Wuhan University of Technology and visiting scholar at Northwestern University. He decided to introduce concrete canoeing into China after witnessing concrete canoe races hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. His students held an exhibition in 2009 that attracted a major sponsor who helped organize the Chinese National Concrete Canoe Competition in 2010. Read more here: 2010 Chinese National Concrete Competition _________________________________
The University of Twente successfully defended their title making this the third year in a row that the team has won. This year, the BetonBrouwers from Twente constructed four canoes. They won an award for construction and placed first overall. The 2010 BetonKanoeRace (concrete canoe race) was held in Utrecht the most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern end of the Randstad and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands. Next year's competition will be held in the city of Eindhoven located in the south of the Netherlands. Competitions such as this date back to the early '70s and this was the Netherlands' 33rd competition. _________________________________
ETS Wins Canadian Nationals
ETS won the Canadian Nationals and will represent the Upstate New York Conference at the U.S. Nationals in San Luis Obispo to be held June 17-19, 2010. Detailed results including scores and pictures from the competition will be posted on the competition website (see link below). Laval is scheduled to host the 2011 CNCCC.
ETS won this yea's Canadian NCCC with "Montferrand." The Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition was established in 1994 at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) in Montreal, who hosted the event for the first four years of its existence. With the growing success of the competition, it was decided to rotate host schools each year. The University of Toronto first hosted the CNCCC in 2002, and they are honored to have a second opportunity to welcome students from across Canada to Toronto. 2010 Canadian National Concrete Competition Website _________________________________
The first ever 2010 ICCC (International Concrete Canoe Competition) will take place in conjunction with the 1st International Concrete Competition to be held in Tabriz, Iran on October 18, 2010. Welcome aboard!
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We're flying the Omanian flag on our banner (see Gateway). If your country is not included on this site but you're concrete canoeing, please let us know and we'll include you. _________________________________
We're flying the Turkish flag on our banner (see Gateway). If your country is not included on this site but you're concrete canoeing, please let us know and we'll include you. _________________________________
On the 19th September the Inland Branch held their 20th Annual Concrete Boat Race Day at the Victoria Lake Club in Germiston, near Johannesburg. The South African Boat Race has been held every year since 1990.
There was a new prize awarded in 2009 to the first boat that sank. This occurred in 10 seconds from the start of the first race and went to the head of the engineering department at one of the universities (name withheld to protect reputation), but you can see the picture along with other photos and additional information here. _________________________________
The 15th Annual All Japan Challenge took place on August 29, 2009 and the results are in. The event was sponsored by the Japanese Society of Civil Engineers.
You can read all about the 2009 competition here (If you can't read Japanese... copy site into Google and press translate... jag). Did you know that the first concrete canoe race in Japan took place in Saiko in 1995 (history) and events now take place throughout the country (Japanese venues)? 2009 All Japan Concrete Canoe Website _________________________________
Every few years, the Federal Association of
the German Cement industry (BDZ) in Düsseldorf organizes a special type
of spectacular... a concrete canoe regatta. This
year over
90 teams registered... with participants coming from a number of other countries including
See
a fantastic video clip from last year: Here
This year's races were won by the women's team from the TU Dortmund (left) and the men's team from the University of Twente Enschede (right). The Aachen University of Applied Sciences won first prize for having the best name. The best design award went to the ZHAW - Zurich University while the University Lusatian defended their title in the Open Class. 2009 Deutsche Betonkanu-Regatta Website _________________________________ The first Concrete Canoe Challenge took place at IUT Grenoble in 2001, and the latest offering was held in Cergy-Pontoise where IUT de Bourges placed first overall. Second place went to IUT d'Égletons. IUT du Havre placed third. The French Nationals are typically held once every two years. 2009 Concrete Canoe Challenge Website _________________________________
The third annual South Australian Concrete Canoe Competition was hosted by Adelaide University earlier this year. The University of South Australia participated in the event that was sponsored in part by the Concrete Institute of .Australia. Be sure to catch the audio segment where Ms. Bree Bennett talks about Adelaide's design and the U.S. competition. See: 2009 Australian Concrete Canoe Competition Coverage _________________________________
Concrete Canoe Magazine - Free Downloads and Call for Papers Concrete Canoe Magazine is looking for articles to be published in the next edition (2011). In 2006, alumni from Laval (eight time Canadian National Concrete Canoe Champs - statistics) published the inaugural issue of "Concrete Canoe Magazine." Their intent was to disseminate knowledge and recent developments in concrete canoeing and to share experiences among concrete canoe enthusiasts and former participants. If you haven't seen the magazine yet, you can download PDF copies of the first three issues... free... by visiting.
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The first Singapore National Concrete Canoe Competition ended with racing on May 25, 2008. The event was sponsored by Nanyang Technological University. Welcome Singapore!
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The University of Sharjah, American University of Sharjah, Dubai Men’s College and Abu Dhabi Men’s College participated in the first concrete canoe contest held in UAE at the Hiltonia Beach Club in Abu Dhabi. _________________________________ We've reserved this partition for links to announcements of any kind and would like to get one or two schools to volunteer to publish (on the web) a concrete canoe newsletter on their site for ConcreteCanoe.org. We envision that the host school(s) would write an editorial section and collect information from other organizations. If you're interested in volunteering, please contact us. Simply provide an email address to which information should be sent. We'll make the announcement here, include the link to your newsletter, and give you plenty of credit. Thanks! Until we get a volunteer to host the newsletter, please fell free to let us know what your organization is up to and we'll provide a link below. Typical examples of announcements are: Joan Buhrman, ASCE, Anthony Reed, "They Are the Champions. Concrete Canoe Champions, That is. University of California Berkeley Wins National Concrete Canoe Competition" June 13, 2009. Team UAH - "Concrete Canoe Competition Becomes Part of U.S. Congressional Record" - Washington, D.C., June 28, 2001. Team
UAH - "Alabama
State Senate Passes Resolution Commending UAH on Winning an Unprecedented Fifth Concrete
Canoe National Championship" - July 12, 2001.
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