"Concrete Canoe Fever"
ConcreteCanoe.org
- 2007
NCCC Coverage & 2007
Trivia
University of
Nevada-Reno - 2007
NCCC
Spreadsheet
University of
Wisconsin-Madison - NCCC
Top Design
Reports
University of Alabama
in Huntsville (UAH) -
NCCC
Statistics &
Canoe
Web Sites
Universite
Laval - Photo
Galleries, Video
Presentations & Concrete
Canoe Magazine
Clemson
University - Selected
NCCC Spreadsheets
(prior to 2004)
Oklahoma State University (OSU) - Concrete
Canoe Design Guide
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All
systems are "GO."
We're celebrating our 6th
anniversary!
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ConcreteCanoe.org
- "2007
NCCC Coverage" - links to official sites, conference qualifiers, racing venue,
pre-national photos... top
picks and commentary for 2007 plus photos
of boats, questions posed during oral presentations, race coverage, and
commentary from the 2007
ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition in Seattle, WA.
ConcreteCanoe.org
- "2006
NCCC Vital Statistics - Presentations and Boats" - photos
of boats, questions posed during oral presentations, race coverage, and
commentary from 2006
ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition in Stillwater, OK.
ConcreteCanoe.org
- "2005
NCCC Vital Statistics - Presentations and Boats" - photos
of boats, questions posed during oral presentations, race coverage, and
commentary from 2005
ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition in Clemson, SC.
ConcreteCanoe.org
- "2004
NCCC Vital Statistics - Presentations and Boats" - photos, commentary, etc. from
2004 ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition in Washington, DC.
ConcreteCanoe.org
- "2003
NCCC Coverage" - photos, commentary, etc. from 2003 ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition in
Philadelphia, PA.
ConcreteCanoe.org - "2002
NCCC Coverage" - photos, movies, commentary, interviews, etc. from 2002
ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition in Madison, Wisconsin.
Articles Featured by ConcreteCanoe.org
"A
brief history of concrete canoeing," by John Gilbert for Concrete
Canoe Magazine, Vol. 1 No 1, pp. 6-10 (2006).
ConcreteCanoe.org
Introduction:
- Welcome to ConcreteCanoe.org,
launched on August 28, 2001 by Team
UAH, as their major contribution to the 150th
anniversary celebration of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
-- America's oldest national engineering society.
 Our
goal is
to
allow people that compete in concrete canoe competitions throughout the world
to showcase their efforts.
At the same
time, we hope to educate, interest, and involve our visitors in designing,
building, and racing these unique crafts.
We expect to
make several changes in content and format,
mainly in response to user feedback from visitors like you.
We
need your input and help
to make this project a success.
As
this site matures, we want to make it easy for our
visitors to find information that they would otherwise have to search long and
hard for. Now that we have begun to secure volunteers to work with us, we plan to work hard
on information architecture (IA) -- how information is organized on the site. Our objective
is to make ConcreteCanoe.org
user friendly, so that when a visitor wants to find concrete canoe information,
they come to us as opposed to using their favorite search engine.
We
would like to attract additional volunteers willing to compile data bases regarding
specifics, with top line menus having items such as Mix Design, Section Design,
Hull Design, Paddling, and Fund Raising. This
is not a comprehensive list by any means. But it gives you an idea of what
we have in mind.
The
main thing is that when someone comes to ConcreteCanoe.org
wanting to learn anything about concrete canoes, we can link them to a location
where they obtain key information regarding a desired functional area, say
paddling. When they click paddling on our volunteer’s site, they get a
second level menu, such as Strength Training, Endurance Training (or
Conditioning), Nutrition, Technique, Sprint Races, Distance Races, etc.
Technically
speaking, ConcreteCanoe.org
is a portal site with two major inherent difficulties:
- once a user leaves to go to a site hosted by
someone else, they generally have no obvious way back to us.
- branding problems arise because the graphics,
navigation, etc. are inconsistent as a user moves through the links that we
provide.
As
described below, we have prepared a number
of promotional graphics to solve the first problem;
and, are currently working on software packages to
allow a user to download and install a pop-up window for ConcreteCanoe.org.
We branded
our site by using a black background
so that users know when they are still aboard. The main disadvantage of
this is that black pages require excessive ink while printing. However,
this should become less and less of a problem as we secure more and more
volunteers to keep libraries, data bases, etc. at their locations.
Getting
involved:
 Suggestions
for getting involved as a volunteer in
this undertaking are mentioned throughout the site. A concise list is
included on the submission
guidelines page.
If you have something to
showcase here, please refer to the submission
guidelines and contact us.
Let us know
what it is and how you think your contribution should be integrated into our site. We'll post the information and provide a link to you. -- Simple as
that!
ConcreteCanoe.org
graphics:
Stationary
and animated images,
such as those shown above and below, can be downloaded and used to promote ConcreteCanoe.org.
By including one or more of these
promotional
graphic images on your site with a link to
www.concretecanoe.org, you
will help our contributors get the exposure and recognition that they deserve.
Thank you
in advance for your support!
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