INNOVATION May-June 2014

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The Winning Results Are In! National Engineering and Geoscience Month (NEGM) events wrapped up at the end of March. It was a great success with many APEGBC members participating in activities around BC. NEGM was an opportunity to showcase diversity of career choices, awareness about the professions and a time for the spirit of competition. The results are in for all submissions and contests.

APEGBC Works Challenge APEGBC received 22 video submissions from across the province for the Works Challenge. Creativity, innovation and teamwork were displayed by all participants who were to invited to submit videos of their teams moving five supplied items from point A to point B as quickly as possible. After careful review, APEGBC crowned Team BCIT the 2014 APEGBC Works Champion, with a speedy time of 4.6 seconds. Team members Marco Piovesan, Yinan Shi, Daine Strankman, Joshua Fraser and Alex Martins designed and built a transportation device that stood up to fierce competition. This is the first time a student team has ever won. You can watch their video and others at apeg.bc.ca/negm. APEGBC Photo Search APEGBC’s photo search asked members to submit photos of themselves and tell us why they love what they do. Congratulations to environmental engineer, Steve Sumsion, P.Eng., whose name was drawn for two tickets to see retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield speak at the 2014 APEGBC Annual Conference and AGM. In this picture, Steve is staying warm in the mine water treatment plant. Thank you to McCue Engineering who tweeted us the photo of Steve.

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