Students challenged to engineer accessibility at Canatara bandshell
November 18, 2019 Greg Thomson
Tyler Kula
Published on: November 16, 2019
About six teams of local high school students are participating in an engineering design challenge to improve accessibility at the Canatara Park bandshell. One of the teams, all twelfth graders at St. Patrick’s high school, includes Ivan Lange, (front left) Juliette Rossi, Lily Taylor, and Josh Allen. They’re pictured at the bandshell with their engineer mentor for the challenge Brooke Wilson (back left), Professional Engineers of Ontario Lambton Chapter representative Jennifer Ladanchuk, and the City of Sarnia’s manager of recreation and planning Ryan Chamney. Tyler Kula/Sarnia Observer/Postmedia Network
Local high school students are testing their engineering design chops to see who can come up with the best idea to improve accessibility at Canatara Park’s bandshell.
A half-dozen teams comprised of about 30 students signed up for this year’s High School Engineering Design Challenge with the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) Lambton Chapter.
The chapter, reviving the challenge after a several years, said spokesperson Jennifer Ladanchuk, approached the city with the idea, to give students participating in the challenge the chance to have a meaningful impact.
The winning team’s design could be brought to life at the bandshell, [...]