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It’s not Myster-E — it’s engineering
VOLUME 157 |
ISSUE 18
Golden pursuing wristbands, more shuttles for Clear Creek this summer
Tra c signal considered long-term solution for Ford Street crossing
BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Mines students test skills, knowledge in annual cardboard boat races
BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
For months, Colorado School of Mines students have been collecting cardboard — everything from moving boxes and TV boxes to 24-packs of beer and pizza boxes — in preparation for this day.
On April 15, hundreds of Mines students, parents, faculty and alumni, as well as Golden community members lined both sides of the Clear Creek Whitewater Park, stand-
INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 14 | LIFE: PAGE 16 | ing on their tiptoes and climbing on rocks to catch a glimpse of the next boat to sail or sink down the creek.
Mines celebrated its 89th annual Engineering Days, or E-Days, this weekend, complete with an ore cart pull to the Capitol April 14 and the iconic cardboard boat races April 15.
Students build boats made completely of cardboard and duct tape. Some collapsed quickly, only making it through the rst rapid, while others were still intact as the students heaved them into the dumpsters. is year’s E-Days theme was Myster-E, and several boating teams ran with the idea. ey built Mystery Machines in themes from “Scooby-Doo,” “Gravity Falls,” “Clue” and at least one “Blue’s Clues”-inspired boat.
Not everyone went for the Myster-
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E theme though, building boats inspired by “Men in Black,” Vikings, ducks, bubble baths, “Breaking Bad” and more. One team’s boat had a table with charcuterie, glasses and a bottle of something bubbly that the students drank as they oated between the rst two rapids.
Overall, there were more than 100 entries across three hours Saturday morning.
Many Mines students participated for the rst time this year, although they’ve watched before to get ideas.
“Some of the oddest boats make it,” sophomore Mariah Koenen said, recalling an octagon-shaped one last year.
Koenen’s team, e Travern, e city also doesn’t have rm plans for expanding shuttle services right now, she added, but the goal is to reduce the number of tubers on the trail. One out tter operated a shuttle last summer with ample participation, and the city could either help expand the existing shuttles and/or provide its own, Lorentz described.
As Golden prepares for an in ux of tubers along Clear Creek this summer, city o cials are moving forward with a wristband-type concept for tubers on weekends and holidays, and partnering with out tters to provide additional shuttle service. ese measures will collect more data on how many tubers are visiting, what percentage are bringing their own tubes, how many trips they’re taking and more.
Carly Lorentz, deputy city manager, said sta members haven’t nalized what the wristband strategy will look like, explaining that Golden could pursue wristbands for individual tubers or stickers for the tubes themselves.
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