NORFOLK, Va., May 11 -- Old Dominion University issued the following news release:
By Kelsey Kendall
What does it take to make a couple hundred pounds of concrete float?
That is the challenge Old Dominion University's American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) team took on in preparation for the ASCE Virginias' Student Symposium and Concrete Canoe Competition.
The competition took place at Virginia Beach's First Landing State Park, welcoming nearly a dozen teams from universities across Virginia and West Virginia. Their creations were placed in the water on Friday, April 10.
Charlie Lemeni, a senior in civil engineering and co-team captain, told her teammates winning was not the goal. It was to build a canoe. Anything else was just ext...