Winter Carnival Snow Statues

Michigan Tech has a winter carnival tradition. Every year student organizations compete in a snow statue competition. This year's theme was "Cartoon Art for the Young at Heart". There were over 45 snow statues built this year. The competition begins 1 month before winter carnival and judging is the first day of carnival break. Its really amazing to see what these engineers are capable of. These pictures don't do it justice. I have put a pictures on here of quite a few but there are so many more.

This one was Tale Spin...created by mama's boys resident hall

This one was done by a Fraternity it was called "Aladin's Land of Frozen Sand" and was the most massive and detailed...It won first place.

This begins a series of 3 pictures...This won 2nd and was done by a different Fraternity. Its the grinch who stole christmas and there are several scenes of hoo-ville depicted throughout the statue.
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This one was done by another frat. It won 3rd place. It is a massive Toy Story statue. There is a series of 4 pictures for this one.
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There is a seperate competition catergory called the "all-nighter". This is a competition where the organization must complete a statue over one night.
Here is the batmobile.

This is a month long statue. Its Shrek

This next one is one of 2 pictures of a Flinstone Statue. It was done by the first-year experience resident hall and won 1st.
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This is the statue I worked on over the month long time period. Its a Tribute to Calvin and Hobbes done by the Knight House. We won 5th of the resident halls.
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As we walked around taking pictures during the campus wide all-nighter we ran across the snow-bar where they were giving out free root-beer. So we stopped for a few moments to relax.
This is Kevin and Berek.

They also made a snow couch...which Kevin and Jason are enjoying.

This statue is Inspector Gadget. It won 2nd and was done by a resident hall.

This was the first place all-nighter...Its veggie tales of course, Jericho's wall.

Winter Carnival was a blast!

3 World Records

Michigan Tech and surrounding community and friends broke 3 world records on February 10th.

They needed at least 3200 people to show up to break these records,
and over 4000 did.

So we had a 4,000 person snowball fight, and we made 4,000 simultaneous snow angels.

The third record was a 6'8" snow ball.

Broomball

Broomball is the biggest winter sport up here at Tech!

This here is my Broomball Team. Its 16 girls from my hall; our hall name is Shangri-la. Our Team name is the Wicked Wombats...don't ask, I wasn't there when they choose it. Our uniforms were these humungous yellow puffy vests. They were awesome because they added a little extra padding.

Here I am. I am # 14. I usually played Defense, but occasionally I played center as well. This is my usual game attire. spandex pants with smiley face boxers and my yellow vest.

I am on the side lines here waiting to sub -in. This sport is a lot like hockey: minus the skates, add a hand-made broomball stick (made from a broom and lotsa duct tape), and take away the puck and add a ball about the size of a cocanut.


This is one of my many many falls. The ice is just so slick. I have bruises everywhere. However, in the end its all worth it. Especially because I look so tough.
We ended up in a tie this game..it was pretty equal competition. Please notice the crowd in the background. Its usually twice as big as that. You see the guys tend to gather whenever girls play broomball because its one of the only times at tech you see 30 girls at once.
We have 2 games left in our season. Our record is currently 3-3-1.
Its been a great experience and a fun team.

Yooper Day!



It was Yooper day at Michigan Tech... Yooper as in a U.P-er (aka a resident of the Upper Penninsula of Michigan). The goal of the day is to dress the part, while participating in Yooper-Like activites; Hopefully these photos will be enlightening

It is a pasty-eating contest. Objective: to be the first one to eat an entire pasty (pie-like crust stuffed with potatoes, beef, and other veggies).
Garrett, Kevin, Landon

Yes, even I participated in a round...But i lost horribly, not suprising considering how much i love lard and beef :-(

This was the Buck Hunting event. These are 2 of my friends Nora and Candice. The objective is to take the plastic rifles and shoot the "buck" (in the background). It was pulled along a string to simulate a running deer.

This here be a euchre tournament. Its Michigan's version of Rook baiscally. Its a quality game dont cha know.
These boys here be Kevin, Joe, Jason, and Garrett

This is Kevin brushing up on his Snow-shoveling skills. (Its actually packing peanuts)

This is our Yooper Day attire...Mostly provided by Jason (he likes flannel too much)
This is Garrett and Jason
Pay attention to the boots/socks
Its a good look, eh?

This be Me and Kevin. Kevin won the "Best-Dressed Yooper" award in the Yooper Catwalk...Its gotta be the hat. I personally like the flannel/deer print that I'm sporting (my outfit was compliments of Jason's wardrobe).

It was a good day. There were even more events that we didnt participate in: Lake Superior Apple Bobbing and Duck Hunt (from the original Nintendo).