Second place in Alternate's Competition!

Each team has six competing members and one or two alternates.  The alternates have their own competition where they are placed into teams made up of students from different schools that then work together for the day.

Jason Dovel, the alternate for the Sustainability team, was on the 2nd place team for the Alternate's Competition!

First place Commercial Team!!

Our Commercial team took first place!!!

Saturday - Job Fair

Saturday is a huge job fair for the students.  There are over 100 companies here!  Many of our students are getting interviews and offers for internships or full time positions. 

Friday - Presentation day

All day Friday all of the teams present their solutions to the industry sponsors.  The presentations are usually 20 minutes plus 10 minutes of question/answer from the judges.  They ask some really hard questions.

I don't have photos of all the teams due to some time overlaps, but here's what I did get....

Design Build team:

Heavy Civil team (before and after presentation):

Sustainability team:

Thursday = busy work day

Today is the day the students have to hunker down and do a ton of work.  They picked up their problems from the industry sponsors early this morning and are busy putting together estimates, schedules, safety plans, and any other documents their sponsor asks for.  They will be turning in those items between 8pm-11pm tonight and then begin putting together a presentation on their project that will be due first thing tomorrow morning.

No pictures today because faculty aren't allowed to visit the students or talk to them.  I might have a few photos of teams turning things in tonight if I can catch them in action.  Stay tuned....

On the faculty side, we are spending our day meeting with construction company representatives that want to hire our students, catching up with alumni, and attending presentations (and grading assignments).

Dinner and raffle prizes

Tonight's dinner was for about 1600 people.  Afterwards, they do a great raffle for the students.  Boise State's streak for winning prizes continues!

Team photos

Commercial team

Concrete Solutions team

Design Build team

Heavy Civil team

Sustainability team

Everyone

We're here!

We have made it to Reno successfully.  Unfortunately, we had to wait a long time for our room keys, but we made the most of the time.  The teams are getting their rooms set up now.

General info about the 2017 ASC student competition

The Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Regions 6 & 7 student competition in Sparks, Nevada from Feb 8-11 is kind of a big deal.  Here are the stats as of Friday, Feb 3, 2017 (5 days before the event starts):

 

Participating Universities = 45

Number of States = 16

Total Teams = 182

Number of Students on a Team = 1092

Number of Alternates = 248

Number of Student Volunteers = 22

Total Number of Students = 1362

Faculty and Faculty Coaches = 160

Companies Participating in the Job Fair = 83

Companies Attending = 130

Registered Industry Attendees = 984

And they are still counting…

 

If you're not sure what the competition is all about, here's a video that will give you a good introduction:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmRaPy0x_Hk

 

Boise State University has five teams participating this year, with 37 students involved.  The categories we are competing in this year are:

Heavy Civil (region 6)

Commercial (region 6)

Design-Build (region 6)

Sustainability (open category)

Concrete Solutions (open category)

 

If you're interested, more info about the competition is available here: http://www.asc67.org/competition.html