Today the engineering students of the University of Belize came together to compete in a construction competition. They had to build a crane module but the material they used to build the crane was not your regular lego blocks or erector sets. They used macaroni. Yes, that's right, macaroni. Leonard Mortis of UB explained the reasoning behind the macaroni to us this morning.
Leonard Mortis, University of Belize Chair of the Engineering Department of the Faculty of Science and Technology
"It is something we have been doing since 2010 and we got the idea from and we got the idea from Chetumal one of our past lecturers brought the idea to us and since 2010 we have been doing an annual local macaroni competition."
"The top 3 of our competition will go on to Chetumal to the Instituto technologico where we have participated for 6 years with students over there in fact right now we are the defending champions."
"The competition is to basically look at a frame structure, in this case, it is a crane and the competition looks at what is the maximum load that, that little crane made of macaroni is able to withstand."
"We have 11 groups of 5 participating since yesterday and now today they are going to find out how their models are doing."
The top three groups will be heading to compete in Chetumal to try and defend their title from November 15th through to the 17th.
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