Jemicy’s Veke Versa Boat, Squid Man, Kraken, Cabrena Octopus & Calamari
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The Jemicy School returned with five entries, and Veke
Versa Boat, their largest ever,
showed that they’ve been learning a lot about engineering. With four pilots toiling under a large
cloth tree octopus, fat stubby tires, and
extremely low sand and mud gears, they churned through all terrain on the racecourse to win both an
ACE award for following the most stringent race rules and also
the Engineering award.
It used the chassis from 2008’s
Viscar Boot #3 entry as its foundation.
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Here you can see the Veke Versa Boat slowly cranking through the mud in its low gears.
Progress was slow—the green Mud Vortex Timer at the lower left corner shows most of their time is
gone—but they made it through the mud just in time as the crowd roared.
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Squid Man was one of the four smaller Jemicy sculptures,
here drooping a hose in traffic on Pratt Street, but also winner of an ACE award.
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Kraken showed how a small lightweight sculpture can
succeed in the sand with just three narrow tires. It also received an ACE award.
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Cabrena Octopus approaches the mud. As soon as a sculpture
stopped making forward progress, Becky the Timekeeper flipped over the aqueous vortex hourglass countdown
timer giving two minutes
for a sculpture to clear the mud. Becky and the timer come from the American Physical Society of College Park.
Cabrena Octopus also won an ACE award for making it through all obstacles fast enough
without help on forward propulsion.
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Calamari was the final Jemicy entry,
sporting octopus sock creatures, and also winner of an ACE award.
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