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Engineering students brace the cold to race concrete sleds in London, Ont.
UBC Okanagan's 22-person team won King of the Hill after months designing concrete toboggans, beating teams from about 20 Canadian universities, organizers said.
- This past Saturday at Boler Mountain, hundreds of engineering students from about 20 universities raced concrete sleds in the annual Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race.
- Teams spent 10 or 11 months designing and building toboggans with concrete sliding surfaces, safety roll cages, mechanical steering and braking, and weighing less than about 160 kilograms.
- Racers advance through slalom heats and elimination brackets, with a drag race judging speed, a slalom race for steering, and bracket winners competing for King of the Hill.
- The victory marked UBC Okanagan's first King of the Hill, with Owen Kirk saying, `Winning King of the Hill for the first time at UBCO was such a joy and a great way to cap off my engineering degree`, Kirk said with a smile on his face.
- According to the GNCT rule book, the corporate sponsor will announce prize details later, while teams shared tools and a welder helped another during the return to Boler Mountain after over a decade.
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Engineering students brace the cold to race concrete sleds in London, Ont.
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Engineering students brace the cold to race concrete sleds in London, Ont. – 105.9 The Region
Hundreds of engineering students braced the bone-chilling cold over the weekend to race concrete sleds down a hill in London, Ont. As part of the annual Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race, teams from about 20 universities across the country design and construct their own toboggans to send down a hill. This year, the students gathered Saturday for the race at Boler Mountain. The last time a race was held at the mountain, located roughly two ho…
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