Michigan Technilogical University's Winter Carnival Photos

Yearly, during the first week in February, the engineering students use the most abundant and malleable resource - SNOW - to build statues, building facades, and even vehicles to address a university-provided theme and compete for some prizes.  This year's theme was, "While frozen in the ice and snow, we dream of vacations on which to go."  They also use this week to invite all the locals to walk the campus and view college events like swimming, broomball (a form of hockey played with small brooms instead of hockey sticks), lectures, curling, sledding, and much more.  You can check out their website at http://www.mtu.edu/carnival/#schedule.

Mark and I bundled up and, along with LOTS of others, toured the university taking photos and videos of the snow and ice carvings.  I thought you'd like to see the marvelous engineering students work in snow:

This is the first place winner. That is Mark at the end of the video in his bright yellow jacket.

This is the second place winner.  Mark and I were amazed by them both, especially things like the ice chains and the tiki lights (I've add a close up photo at the bottom of this posting).  It says, "Hawaiian lava flow out of Michigan arctic snow."

Here are some other photos for your enjoyment:

Rome

Chariot and Horses

Grand Hotel

Arch

Taj Mahal

Eiffel Tower

Space Shuttle

Ice Bear

Owl                                                                                                                  Eagle

Surfer and Dalphins

Tiki Light

Wolf

WallyWorld from National Lampoon's Vacation.  

I hope you enjoy the wonderful work that went into the creation of these pieces of art.