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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Lakehead Wins NSSBC 2011, eh?

Congratulations to Lakehead for the stunning victory today in College Station! And a huge congratulations to Team Georgia Tech who won 1st in Display, 3rd in Lightness, and 4th Overall! We're proud of you fellas.

Here are the FULL RESULTS

Overall:
1st - Lakehead
2nd - Michigan Tech
3rd - SUNY Canton
4th - Georgia Tech

If you attended Nationals in CSTX today and took video of bridge constructions, throw them on youtube and leave us a note or a link in the comments so those who couldn't make it can see the good stuff.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Map of Competitors

Now that we're here, I've moved the map of the all the competitors that I think are coming to CSTX to this link so that you can all still see it, but it doesn't take up all that room at the top of the page.

@csbt

Having a blast in Texas, wish you were here.

@GTFabricationClub

leaving for CSTX. lol.




This is twitter, right?

Friday, May 13, 2011

Come back to Texas, It ain't been the same since you went away

If you know what goes behind the question marks, send a comment and I'll fill them in. Some of these schools below are based on results that have turned up online and some are based on rumor. Some are also based on the work the Ernest Hemingway.


Carolinas
Georgia Institute of Technology, from Atlanta, GA
                The Citadel, from Charleston, SC
Deep South
                Louisiana Tech University, from Ruston, LA
                Arkansas State University, from Jonesboro, AK
Great Lakes
                University of Wisconsin, from Madison, WI
                Purdue University, from West Lafayette, IN
                University of Illinois at Chicago, from Chicago, IL
Metropolitan
                New Jersey Institute of Technology, from Newark, NJ
                Cooper Union, from New York, NY
Mid-Atlantic
                Lafayette College, from Easton, PA
                Drexel University, from Philadelphia, PA
                Penn State, from State College, PA
Mid-Continent
                Kansas State University, from Manhattan, KS
                ?
Mid-Pacific
                Cal Berkeley, from Berkeley, CA
                San Jose State University, from San Jose, CA
Mid-West
                Lakehead University, from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
                University of Minnesota Twin Cities, from Minneapolis, MN
                Iowa State University, from Ames, IA
New England
                University of New Hampshire, from Durham, NH
                M.I.T., from Cambridge, MA
North Central
                Michigan Technological University, from Houghton, MI
                University of Michigan, from Ann Arbor, MI
Ohio Valley
                University of Akron, from Akron, OH
                Youngstown State University, from Youngstown, OH
                Geneva College, from Beaver Falls, PA
Pacific Northwest
                University of Alaska Fairbanks, from Fairbanks, AK
                University of British Columbia, from Kelowna, B.C., Canada
                Washington State University, from Pullman, WA 
Pacific Southwest
                Cal Poly, from San Luis Obispo, CA
                University of Hawaii at Manoa, from Honolulu, HI
                California State University Long Beach, from Long Beach, CA
Rocky Mountain
                South Dakota School of Mines, from Rapid City, SD
                Utah State University, from Logan, UT
Southeast
                Southern Polytechnic State University, from Marietta, GA
                University of Tennessee, from Knoxville, TN
                University of South Florida, from Tampa, FL
Texas-Mexico
                University of Texas at El Paso, from El Paso, TX
                University of Texas, from Austin, TX
                La Salle Cuernavaca, from Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
Upstate New York
                SUNY Canton, from Canton, NY
                ?
Virginias
                Catholic University of America, from Washington D.C.
               

Mid-Pac Paddy-wack, Give a Dog a Bridge

Now that school has wrapped up and we can all get back to where we belong (the machine shop), it's time to catch up on things.

Thanks to JMac for getting us the results from the Mid-Pacific Conference.


Everyone watch out for Cal Berkeley: Their lean, mean, low-deflection machine checked in at regionals at a cool 148 pounds, the lightest bridge I've seen yet. If anyone has videos from the Mid-Pac conference, throw them on the tube and let us know.

Sunday, May 1, 2011