During winter carnival, one particular night is set aside for snow sculpture competition. Rose Rose Riemer provides a shot of the winning fraternity statue (top) and Jonathan Hopper dons his hard hat to see the work in progress.

For more coverage of this year's festivities, see the Photo Gallery at Michigan Tech.

Dat scaffold don't look none too safe!

Hei, Toivo,
Dem kais got SISU, even if dey ain't all Finlanders. Takes more dan a flimsy scaffold to stop dem! Shhh! Don't tell MIOSHA! :o)

Y'know, I been t'ru Tech twice. (Many years ago I went to two Open House festivities.) :o) When I lived up dere, we used to go see the snow statues and sculptures every winter. It's amazing what they can do with that snow and hard water, and lotsa elbow grease and lotsa late hours. Thank you, Techies and Kiitos, Charlie!

Gorgeous stuff. Amazing that the kids have pulled it off, with the winter not cooperating a whole bunch!

Magnifique!

Wonderful statues this year~ And considering the snow wasnt as abundant they really worked thier MTU magic on these~
Wish I was home to see in person..Thanks to the internet I am strolling the MTU campus and enjoying the sites~

Beautiful work! Will be visiting next week. I hope they will still be up.

beautiful pic's. hope they will still be nice when i visit the end of the month.

Sid and Mary,
I was up there today, some already show signs of wear. One I saw had a head and arm broken off already. Sure is disappointing to me that the students put so much time and work into these works of art and then someone comes along and wrecks it. If it disappoints me, I can imagine how the statue builders must feel. They really are something else to behold!!! Thanks to all the builders! :)

I helped built the Disney statue. 50 hours a week for 3 and half weeks...school?...what school? TKE's and KD's rule Michigan Tech!!

YOU'RE RIGHT--AND TKE SEEMS TO BE THE FRONT-RUNNER THIS YEAR,2004