chine in our living room. Scooby went up fast. Fastest build I am sure I will ever be a part of. Scooby looked just as proud sitting there over everything we had accomplished as I felt. We had exceeded our goal, and the camaraderie within the team felt the same. All that was missing was the noise within the rest of the space from the other teams building their creations. For that one only has to look at the Capital Region CANstruction Facebook page. Exploring the Capital Region CANstruction Facebook page, the effort of all the teams comes into view. Teams have volunteered and educated youth about food insecurities, volunteered to build CANstructions with the Girls Top: “Wall-C and Eve,” a Juror’s Choice Scouts of Northeastern New York as Award Winner and Bottom: Every year, the CSArch team introduces new challenges to part of CANstruction Jr, and started their sculptures. For Dumbo, it was hanging internal competitions, just to name the ears off the body. a few. Teams are reaching out and finding creative ways to make an impact. Even though there were no grand CANstructions to go visit at the New York State Museum, videos by each team were posted to the Capital Region CANStruction Facebook page on March 2, 2021. Go check out these amazing team’s work and see what volunteering for Capital Region CANstruction means to them at https://www.facebook.com/CapitalRegionCanstruction. On March 18, during the virtual awards ceremony, CSArch won the “Best in Show” Award for their video. Congratulations to the CSArch team for their dedication to CANstruction over the past 11 years and for contributing towards donating over 39,000 canned goods and hygiene items to The Food Pantries for the Capital District this year.
The longest CSArch build, finishing up well after the New York State Museum had closed.
Awards and information on how much the teams donated this year will be posted by the Capital Region CANstruction in upcoming weeks. The 2021 Capital Region CANstruction teams are: CSArch, kW Mission Critical Engineering, Stantec, Hyman Hayes Associates, AOW/Envision, RPI School of Architecture, McLaren Engineering, Ryan Biggs Clark Davis, MJ Engineering & Surveying, The Chazen Companies/LaBella Associates, and EYP.
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