UNLV engineering students hard at work building canoe for national competition
It is a canoe, precisely 20 feet long, precisely 30 inches wide. It was engineered to weigh as little as possible, a trim 250 pounds.
It is made of concrete. It has floated. It will soon compete in a race.
These facts create a paradox: buoyant concrete.
The canoe is quite nice looking, with a glass mosaic, a gleaming paint job and a nickname tagged on its side. It’s the result of nearly a year of hard work.
“I think she’s amazing,” said Tiffany Hearn, the captain of the canoe-building team…Â Details
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