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Saint Mary's Senior Team Wins 2nd in Atlantic Engineering Competition

Saint Mary's entered three teams this year to participate in the Atlantic Engineering Competition hitting Moncton, New Brunswick by storm, February 8th-10th.  The competition includes such events as debate, team design, communications, and marketing engineering.  Saint Mary's had good representation for team design.  With one junior team and two senior teams.  The competition included most Atlantic Universities, with such competitors as DAL, UNB, CBU, UPEI, UdeM, and Acadia.

The Saint Mary's 2008 Senior and Junior Design Teams

As a team each must complete a design task, within an allotted number of hours, and then make a formal presentation which is then judged by a judges panel of professional engineers.

Junior design is a four hour design and prototype building period with a formal presentation and a demonstration following. The team had to create a device to get three golf balls to a target, arriving consecutively, with only one launch.  This year's Junior team, Kai Seltner, Jeff Mitchell, Alwym Gomez and Laura Weeden, did well in a close race for fourth with their potato ball launching contraption.

Senior design is more demanding as it is a 12 hour challenge with a formal report, demonstration and presentation.  This year's task presented quite a challenge: teams had to use their programming and problem solving skills to create a device that could gather beer cans out of the bottom of a small pool.  Senior team one, Wallace Barkhouse, Walter Weiss, Eric Gilroy and Kyle Bateman,  did very well, and even won best dressed.   Looking good, boys!  Design team two consisted of John Anderson, Joel McCully, and Andrey Kostylev.  The team's prototype design was the most original and different, with quite successful results.  Their original design lead to their second place win.

They will continue on to Waterloo in March, where they will compete in the Canadian Engineering Competition against top universities in the country. Congratulations and Good Luck!

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