Northwestern University Concrete Canoe

Northwestern's Concrete Canoe team casts and races a canoe made of lightweight concrete. We are a te

The Northwestern Concrete Canoe Team has been established for 6 years. Our team consists of undergraduate students across many majors, and each year we construct an entirely new full-sized canoe out of specially engineered lightweight concrete. We then compete at the annual ASCE Great Lakes Regional conference where we present our finished canoe and race it alongside other schools. Each year we wo

02/18/2018

The canoe has successfully been removed from its form! Looking forward to decorating and sanding it! 😄

09/29/2017

Another info session is happening tomorrow at Tech LG72. Make sure to stop by! We'll have pizza!

09/22/2017

Hi all!

Next week we're going to be holding two info sessions so you can come by, eat some tasty food, and hear what we're all about!

Tuesday 9/26 at 8:00 ft. Insomnia Cookies at Tech LG72
Friday 9/29 at 5:00 ft. Pizza

If you're interested in attending and learning more about concrete canoe, please email [email protected] so we can get a food count. If you can make both days, feel free to pick based on which food you like better!

08/24/2017

Concrete canoe season is almost upon us...

06/24/2017

School of Mines hosts concrete canoe contest In what sounds like a cruel joke, civil engineering students like Grant Johnson had to make a canoe out of concrete.