Show your mettle and maybe earn a medal at the E-Week Winter Games which will run Sunday through Saturday, Feb. 18-24, on the City (Lincoln) and Scott (Omaha) Campuses.
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, all E-Week events are planned and coordinated by College of Engineering student advisory groups – Engineering Student Advisory Board (eSAB, City Campus) and Nebraska Engineering Student Council at Omaha (NESCO, Scott Campus.
While events change on an annual basis, these student-centered events generally include competitions, student banquets, recreational sports and light-hearted social events that bring the collegiate engineering community together.
Among those events this year will be a 5-kilometer run on Lincoln’s East Campus on Sunday, Feb. 18 that will kick off the week’s schedule on City Campus. Check-in and registration are at 10 a.m. at the East Campus Union and the race will begin at 10:30 a.m. Go to the E-Week home page – link below – for information about registration.
The spotlight event of the week is a presentation Nina Tandon, the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, the world’s first company for growing living human bones for skeletal reconstruction. Tandon will speak Thursday, Feb. 22 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Willa Cather Dining Center.
Other Lincoln events include escape rooms (Monday), a duct-tape design competition (Tuesday), the Engineering Carnival (Friday) and the Elympics (Saturday), as well as numerous other competitions and opportunities for students to partake in free food.
Events on Scott Campus will start Monday, Feb. 19 with a visit from the Pancake Man for free pancakes, sausage and orange juice.
The week’s events in Omaha will also include plenty of Hands-on building and design competition events – Leaning Tower (Tuesday), K’Nex Bridge (Wednesday) and Trebuchet (Thursday). Other events on Scott Campus will include Game Show Night (Monday), Free Dinner and a Movie (Tuesday), Engineer’s Night Out (Wednesday), the annual Industry Networking Mixer (Thursday), a UNO Hockey Tailgate (Friday) and a scavenger hunt, plenty of other competitions and free food.
The Golden Calculator hunt will take place on both the City and Scott campuses. Follow UNL Engineering Student Advisory Board (eSAB) and NESCO – Nebraska Engineering Student Council of Omaha (NESCO) on Facebook for daily clues. Solve the puzzle, find the golden calculator and win the prize.
Follow E-Week on social media or post your photos from the events by using the hashtag #NebEWeek18 and check the link below for event schedules.
Remember to swipe your MavCARD at each Scott Campus E-Week event to get extra raffle tickets for the drawings at Friday’s UNO Hockey Tailgate. On City Campus, swipe your NCard for extra raffle tickets for the drawings at Friday’s Engineering Carnival.
Students wishing to attend events in Lincoln or Omaha can take the N-E Ride shuttle between the campuses. The shuttles run Monday-Friday, with the first buses leaving Othmer (Lincoln) and PKI (Omaha) at 8 a.m. and the last buses leaving each location at 6 p.m. Check the N-E Ride schedule online – http://engineering.unl.edu/n-e-ride/.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/6u56