YSU’s results at the National Concrete Canoe Competition continue to soar as the team placed second among 23 universities at this year’s contest. It is the highest the YSU team has placed since finishing fifth in 2018. The University of Florida scored first place, with YSU in second and the University of Washington, Tongii University and UCLA rounding out the top five. Other notable schools that YSU bested include Virginia Tech, New York University, Drexel and the Colorado School of Mines. YSU qualified for the national competition by placing first at the Ohio Valley Student Conference’s event. The national competition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, requires teams to design and construct a seaworthy canoe made entirely of concrete. It was held virtually at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. YSU team members are seniors Jillian Penman, Taylor Greathouse, Brooke Valley and Emma Minamyer and sophomore Jersey Gorby, the first all-female Concrete Canoe team at YSU. Anwarul Islam, YSU professor of Civil Engineering, is the team’s faculty advisor.

Source: YSU News Center