Waterloo Engineering professors, staff and students raided their kitchen pantries and opened their wallets and hearts to take first place in this year’s Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association (WUSA) Stock the Bank Challenge.
The challenge awarded non-perishable food items and monetary donations point values from one to five, with a number of most needed items such as canned vegetables, breakfast foods, fruit juices and toiletries receiving five.
Engineering topped the month-long November challenge with a total of 6530 points, a whopping 4370 more than accumulated by the second-place team.
All items collected support students who access WUSA's Food Support Service for food and essentials.
Canned version of WATonoBus
The talk of the Faculty's food drive was the CANstruction version of the WATonoBus, which was displayed on the seventh floor of E7 last month.
Brian Shuh, an instructor with the Engineering Student Shop, took the Faculty’s advancement team’s idea of recreating the WATonoBus out of cans and designed the vehicle and its support system. Engineering co-op students helped assemble the structure and volunteered at the challenge donation table for the month of November.
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Waterloo Engineering co-op students helped assemble a canned version of WATonoBus on display in Engineering 7 last month.
The winners of the Faculty’s challenge prizes included Ross McKenzie of the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR) who came up with the closest number of food items used for the WATonoBus. His guess of 875 was 13 shy of the actual total of 888. Cheryl Newton and Judy Caron, both of chemical engineering, won draw prizes.
Several groups and departments within the Faculty entered their own teams in the Stock the Bank Challenge to help line the WUSA's Food Support Service shelves.