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Michigan Tech Winter Carnival 2009 |
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Written by Charles Eshbach
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Carnival Image Gallery (click on image) |
This year was a banner snow statue building year, even with the building time shorten by the academic calendar. Mother nature made up the difference with optimum weather conditions. Frosty below zero wind still nights made progress fast. The last five days were perfect. Cold, fresh snow by the foot, and more cold clear nights helped the production of last minute clear ice detail. The stage was set for Wednesday night when the big push produces miracles.
Thursday morning broke clear 0 degrees when the judges hit the sights. It was not easy. Delt Sigs had the size, walls that were record heights. The TKEs had the nice composition, with an impressive lunar rover of clear ice engineered one piece at a time. But the Phi Tau's, as defending champs, nailed the theme, detail, engineering, walls, with their "Aliens Come from Far Away, the Men in Black Save the Day". With the Carnival theme, "An Icy Place Gets a Blast From Space", Phi Kappa Tau placed 1st. The Delta Sigma Phi presentation was grand for second place titled "At Work with Fry and Bender in a Frozen Urban Splendor" straight out of "Futurama". Coming in third was the special Tau Kappa Epsilon with "Fifty Years in Space Frozen in Place" a beautiful display of space exploration history. Check out our photo gallery. The winners are in order. Thursday through Sunday brought sunshine and warmer temps which brought out the crowds and kept the slay rides busy. The 2009 Winter Carnival will go in the books as one of the best for beautiful statues. |
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