{"id":1551,"date":"2015-10-20T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunwoody.edu\/blog\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2016-07-27T08:26:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T13:26:54","slug":"dunwoody-mortenson-construction-award-at-2015-canstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/2015\/dunwoody-mortenson-construction-award-at-2015-canstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunwoody & Mortenson Construction Win \u201cBest Meal Award\u201d at 2015 CANstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Donates 6,000 + Canned Goods to Second Harvest Heartland<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"IMG_2033-small\"Dunwoody\u2019s Construction Sciences & Building Technology Department teamed up with Mortenson Construction for the 2015 Minneapolis CANstruction fundraiser<\/span>\u2014an annual event where participating teams build colossal structres made entirely out of cans of food.<\/p>\n

The CANstruction team earned the \u201cBest Meal\u201d Award at the event, which was held at the Mall of America last month. The award is given annually to the team that uses the most nourishing, protein-packed food items.<\/p>\n

Proceeds from the Minneapolis event were given to Second Harvest Heartland<\/span><\/a>, the Upper Midwest\u2019s largest hunger-relief organization.<\/p>\n

There are over 150 CANstruction events held throughout the world each year.<\/p>\n

Minnesota History Inspires 2015 CANstruction Sculpture Theme<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

\"IMG_8751-small\"The 2015 sculpture\u2014designed and built by Interior Design and Construction Management students–was themed \u201cFeast Like a Viking.\u201d Cans of beans, tomatoes, vegetables and coconut milk made up the ship\u2014complete with oars, a mast, sail and dragon head\u2014while cans of tuna were used to represent ocean waves.<\/p>\n

The CANstruction team chose the Viking theme because it represents the rich history of Minnesota. The voyage of Leif Erikson\u2014who is often considered to be the first European to discover America\u2014was recreated in 1927, with a final landed in Duluth, Minnesota. Journal entries from that expedition were kept and often detailed the crew’s difficulty in finding fresh fish and ripe vegetables.<\/p>\n

This inspired the CANstruction team\u2019s motto, which is \u201cno-one\u2019s \u2018voyage through life\u2019 should be limited by hunger\u201d\u2026especially today.<\/p>\n

CANstruction Provides Students with Beneficial, Real World Experience<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

The entire project lasted about five weeks. During that time, Mortenson Construction and Dunwoody students not only designed the sculpture but also collected more than 6,000 cans of food.<\/p>\n

Interior Design Principal Instructor and CANstruction Coordinator Cindy Martimo said that although the students were working with canned goods, the project did<\/em> require students to use skills and best practices they would also perform on a real job.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt required two very different departments to work together\u2014especially on build day,\u201d said Martimo. \u201cOnly five people could build at a time. So those who weren\u2019t building had to provide various levels of support to the builders by unpacking boxes, passing cans, etc. The team had to practice time management, communicate with one another, follow a set of plans, and ultimately create the structure they designed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click below to view a timelapse video of the CANstruction team assembling the sculpture at the event.<\/em><\/p>\n