The students at École Alliance St-Joseph in Chelmsford know how to make a really good cardboard boat.
The students captured gold in the elementary school category at the North-Eastern Ontario Cardboard Boat Race competition.
The gold-medal winning team’s vessel navigated a distance of 25 metres in 17.69 seconds and carried a load of 595 pounds. This team consisted of Nicholas Tranchemontagne, Dylan Wagner, Éric Pelletier and Kyle Charbonneau.
École Alliance St-Joseph will travel to Waterloo to take part in the Elementary Provincial Cardboard Boat Races on March 2. École Ste-Marie, which won the bronze medal, will also travel to the competition.
The competition, organized by Skills Canada for students from Grades 7 to 12, requires each four-student team to design and build a boat. Students were evaluated based on the design and the construction quality of their boats, teamwork, organization, security, creativity, team spirit as well as the speed and resistance of their vessels.
In addition to seeing the performance of their cardboard boats measured on water over a distance of 25 metres, the teams took part in a load challenge to determine how long their boats could carry a maximum number of team-mates without sinking.
