Cardboard canoes! Brooklyn Tech students to hold engineering regatta in pool
Almost five years ago, this newspaper ran an article about engineering students from NYU Polytechnic in Downtown Brooklyn taking part in a national concrete-canoe contest.
Now, at the other end of the durability scale, some engineering students at an equally prestigious Brooklyn school – Brooklyn Technical High School – will be holding a cardboard-canoe contest this Friday, March 1, in their pool.
Just as most people would think that concrete would sink immediately, most people would also think that cardboard would get wet, soggy and unusable very fast. But overcoming such obstacles is part of the challenge of being an engineer.