Does concrete float? Teams representing 23 schools were judged on how well they applied their engineering skills to building boats from concrete. The concrete canoes were more than four times ...

By Paula M. Davis | Kalamazoo Gazette Using the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies as a theme, team members have dubbed their 20-foot-long, charcoal-colored vessel the Black Pearl.

“I got to do that the past two years and I thought that was actually really fun, because there’s just something so interesting about taking a canoe into the pool at SPAC at 10 p.m.,” Sze said.

In what’s billed as a battle of brains, brawn and buoyancy, engineering students from 20 universities will race canoes of concrete across Sand Lake.No floating bathtubs, the canoes are sleek ...

VALPARAISO | Being fitted for a pair of concrete shoes usually never turns out well, but having a concrete canoe might not be too bad — if it was built ...

Auburn Career Center students are banking on making concrete boats float. Applying principles of math, science and design, teams of high school juniors in an architecture and project management ...