2008 Woodie Awards
Students compete, enjoy giveaways during Engineering Week
Shayne Sprenkle
Issue date: 2/27/06 Section: News
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E-Week events began last Monday with a free 11:30 a.m. lunch. The first 500 students received a burrito from Pancho's, a 24-hour Mexican restaurant on Main St.
After lunch students participated in a humor contest. Each student was challenged to fill in the captions to popular comic strips. Sprint gave a presentation on the local opportunities for engineering new grads. At 1 p.m., the Civil Engineering Department competed to build the fastest, most dynamic marble-track roller coaster using only foam pipe insulation.
Over 20 students participated in the Pi Tau Sigma tug-of-war competition in the Quad. The afternoon concluded with another competition to build a flying machine using only Popsicle sticks and super-glue.
An egg-drop contest was held on Tuesday in the third-floor atrium of Flarsheim Hall. The Eta Kappa Nu fraternity hosted the two-day event. The competition was yet another challenge: students were to build a storage container for an egg that would be dropped from three floors above the ground.
Other Tuesday activities included a community blood drive, nacho give-away to the first 250 students, and a presentation on continuing threat of hackers and needed computer security that will stop such crimes.
More than six teams competed in Wednesday's two-hour trivia bowl. Following the event was a give-away meal from the popular campus hotdog vendor WundaDog. The vendor gave away two hundred hot dogs. The UMKC alumni panel gave an open forum on the experience of "getting that first job." Shortly after at 4 p.m. was the $100 cash prize math competition.
