In the canoe event, engineering teams are scored equally on design, final product, technical project presentation, and the racing.  The team members from all of the schools have been working for many months, using design specifications laid out in a 76 pages rule set that is governed by the ASCE.  A complete set of design specifications and drawings, including concrete mixtures, dimensions, structural elements and floatation materials, are used by each of the 12 teams in the Mid‐Pacific region in building their canoes.  Contestants must place first or second at the regional level to move on to the national competition.  The same canoe must be used in both the national and regional competition.

The 2012 National Concrete Canoe Competition Rules and Regulations can be accessed at: 

http://www.concretecanoe.org/2012Trivia/2012NCCCRulesRegulations.pdf