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Originally Posted by Cheerio
A relative had a great mini vacation at the recent Winter Carnival put on by students attending Michigan Tech University.
To quote her: "I tell you, the students up there are so nice, polite, and friendly. It is very enjoyable to walk around the campus and downtown. We got to talk to some of them at the Rosza Center and the Hockey rink. Then when you see how they act at the restaurants etc. We were very impressed."
Kudos to the great students hosts of the MTech Winter Carnival!
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I had heard a lot about Winter Carnival because we have some alumnae from Tech in our alumnae club. Everybody talked about the snow statue contest. The groups spend a month creating snow statues. In my head, I always pictured things like ice sculpture size. I went up there to do an officer training with our chapter there the week after Winter Carnival in 2009. The statues were still there. I was SHOCKED. These were massive snow sculptures, taller than their houses in some cases! They spend a lot of time creating intricate detail out of ice and each group has their "secret" method to doing this. I was in awe, truly in awe, of what these groups were able to do. Check out the pictures at these links- and understand that they can't even capture it all in pictures!
The winners with their finished sculptures
http://www.mtu.edu/carnival/gallery/results/
The process captured in images
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michiga...7632224249604/
ETA: They had challenges this year because it was warmer with a lot less snow than most years. The two feet they got on Wednesday this week would have been welcome in January!