2010 - "Super Charger"

Overall length of boat: TBD  

Net weight of canoe: TBD

Concrete: TBD

Reinforcement: TBD

Placement: TBD

Regional Conference: Auburn University, Auburn, AL

National Competition: Cal Poly - SLO, San Luis Obispo, CA

Officers:
     P: Jorge Cacciatore
     VP: Jennifer Bowers
     S: Charlsie Smith
     T: Chris Shaw
     COB: Jorge Cacciatore
     SBC: Vinny Liebner

SEC Conference Coordinator: Ester Sala

Community Service Coordinator: Kimberly Wander

Faculty Advisors:
     Dr. Houssam Toutanji; Dr. John Gilbert

Contact Members:
     Mr. Jackie Whitaker
     Dr. Teng K. Ooi

Concrete Canoe Project Manager:
    Jorge Cacciatore

Concrete Canoe Project Engineer:
   Matthew Pinkston

Concrete Canoe Team Captains:
   TBD

Coaches:
    Sarah Yeldell
    Todd Watts
    Jackie Whitaker

Professional Training and Development:
    Mr. John Bentley
 

Media Relations:
     Mr. Phillip Gentry

Technical Editor:
   Dr. Tom Lavin

Our competition theme:

We'll be flying our school colors (blue and white) and basing our theme on the true legend of  "Charger Blue"... UAH's mascot.

In 1500, when the Spaniards brought the first horses into the Huntsville area, a group of Cherokee youths helped a massive Andalusian stallion and three mares escape into the mountains.  This was a great blow to the horse's owner, Don Philippe é Garcia de Velasquez, and the expedition's leader, Ponce de Leon.

The horses prospered and the story of the great charger which escaped from the Spaniards was told and retold throughout the region. Although the legend itself has been nearly forgotten, wild "blue" horses are often sighted grazing late at night on our pastoral UAH campus, where the descendants of Don Philippe's stallion are said to leave behind an occasional hoof mark or other "reminder."

We plan to breed the magical spirit of these illusive beasts into "Super Charger"... so that Team UAH is so fast and so smart that no one will be able to catch us as we paddle to victory!

Media contacts for 2010:

Jorge Cacciatore (256) 665-6329; John Gilbert (256) 824-6029; Phil Gentry (256) 824-6420

About our school and ourselves:

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) was established in 1961 as a research center specifically aimed to support the growing aerospace science and missile fields. Forty-nine years later, our campus is located across the street from the second-largest research park in the nation in which nearly every major U.S. aerospace corporation is represented. 

We have a current enrollment of 7,431 with 141 students enrolled in Civil and Environmental Engineering. A large percentage of Team UAH is drawn from other engineering disciplines, particularly aerospace. Our unorthodox, multi-disciplinary approach to the Concrete Canoe Competition is what has allowed us to represent the highly competitive Southeast Conference 15 times at the national level and to win 5 national championships.

Team Profiling...

We realize that people are our most valuable resource... and consider ourselves fortunate to be able to work with  John Bentley, professional training and development consultant from Power2Transform (P2T), to help overcome some of the difficulties that we encounter.

See the P2T Newsletter

UAH Contacts:

As mentioned above, our media contact is Phil Gentry.  Phil is a member of University Relations at UAH.  His telephone number is (256) 824-6420.

Our faculty advisors are Dr. Houssam Toutanji [(256) 824-6370] and Dr. John Gilbert [(256) 824-6029].

Consider Joining Our Team:

If you haven't become actively involved with Team UAH yet, we need your support.  So, please consider becoming a sponsor.

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