Halloween Week!

Last week was a slower week because of multiple exams going on for much of the team. We got our sponsorship letters all signed and mailed out:

And the team made an appearance at the Better Concrete Conference on Thursday (October 29th). At the conference we were able to talk with many companies about what we are all about and new things we are doing this year. The shotcrete gun generated a lot of interest and we got a few people interested in being judges for our regional competition in April.

I was not able to make last night's meeting but I heard it went very well. The shotcrete gun was tested once again with lower water/cement ratio and it still worked wonderfully. This is really going to help us achieve our goal of even application and an overall thinner boat. Get excited Team, this is going to be a great year!

In case people are interested in what is happening behind the scenes right now I'll give you a quick rundown. Will sent in the cross-section design files to EFCO tonight meaning we will be able to start construction on our final canoe mold within a few weeks. I will be calling Poraver within the next couple of days to order more aggregate (the glass microspheres). Next week we will be batching cylinders so that we can get some 28-day strengths before the holidays. We are still brain storming as what to do for the end caps of the canoe, hand craft them in Styrofoam or possible get a hold of the Aerospace lab so we can get them machine made.

As for what YOU should be doing right now, WE NEED A TEAM THEME!!!! My idea (which usually gets shot down) is to have a viking theme! We could have concrete axes/armor! And our boat could be called CYchological Warfare! like? comment!