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Two students from Wyandotte County were honored recently at the School of Business awards celebration at Emporia State University.
The students from this area and their honors:
• Bruce VanCleave of Edwardsville, Kan., was named a senior honor student and a distinguished business scholar.
• Jinhyuk Yang of Kansas City, Kan., was named a senior honor student.
Student who were honored had a 3.5 or better cumulative grade point average.
The choppy waters and stiff breeze that persist at Lone Star Lake, 10 miles southwest of the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, aren’t a typical laboratory setting. But for this year’s concrete canoe team at the School of Engineering, there’s no better place for research.
The team, which includes Bruno Soria, Kansas City, Kan., has spent hours on the water in a concrete canoe – honing their paddling and steering skills in hopes of perfecting their technique as they prepare for this year’s American Society of Civil Engineers Mid-Continent Conference Regional Concrete Canoe Competition April 24-26, in Stillwater, Okla., held by Oklahoma State University. The competition requires students to design and build a canoe using concrete as the primary material using something like a needle gun, then provide detailed presentation materials about the project as well as race against other teams in the canoe.
After narrowly missing a trip to the national competition last year (KU placed second; only the first place team advances), confidence is high for a stronger performance this year.
With a first place finish at regionals, the KU team would advance to the Concrete Canoe nationals, set for June 19-21, at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, in Johnstown, Pa.
Three Wyandotte County students recently were initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
The students are LuDina Marney, Bonner Springs; Govinda Koirala, Kansas City, Kan.; and Bradley Hook, Kansas City, Kan.
Membership to the collegiate honor society is by invitation. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent also are eligible, along with faculty who have achieved scholarly distinction.