The winners have been announced in Michigan Technological University's Winter Carnival Snow Statue Competition. The theme this year is "Snow Cascades Across the Decades."
For the ninth time in the last 10 years, Phi Kappa Tau captured the top prize in the month-long statue division. Their winning entry, constructed outside their house in Hancock, is titled "In the Snow it Shall Appear, A Town of the New Frontier."
This year there were three divisions in the month-long competition — men, women and co-ed. Prizes were awarded to the top three in each division. The top three scores among all the statues were placed in the "Overall Month Long " section.
Second place in the overall section went to Tau Kappa Epsilon, 2015's top winner and the only team other than Phi Kappa Tau to capture first place over the past decade. Their entry is called "In This Icy Condition, We Mourn Prohibition." Both Phi Kappa Tau and Tau Kappa Epsilon competed in the men's division.
Third place overall went to the top statue in the co-ed division, Sigma Tau Gamma and Theta Chi Epsilon for "Leaving the 80s High and Dry as We Hit '88 with Marty McFly."
Following Phi Kappa Tau and Tau Kappa Epsilon in the men's division was Sigma Phi Epsilon with "The Keweenaw's Silver Lining is the Decade of Copper Mining."
Women's Division
In the women's division, Alpha Sigma Tau took the top spot with "In Tonight's Feature Presentation, A Phenomenon Sweeps the Nation. The 50's Tradition Captured in Snow, Where American Teenagers Love to Go."
Second place went to Delta Zeta for "A 60s Meal of Ice and Snow, Fills Your Belly When It's 10 Below." Delta Phi Epsilon took third place in the women's division for "Let's Have a Blast Through Michigan Tech's Past."
Co-ed Division
In the co-ed division, following Sigma Tau Gamma and Theta Chi Epsilon,
in second place were the Four Wheelers of MTU with "Off-Road Upgrades Across the Decades."
Third place went to Raptor and Armada.
In the overnight competition, statues that began yesterday afternoon and were completed this morning, the top prize went to St. Albert the Great University Parish, followed by Concordia Student Mininstries. Strange Crew took third.
The Michigan Tech's Huskies Pep Band won the Interactive Statue division.
The winners of the statue competition, along with the overall Carnival winners, will be presented at the awards ceremony following the Sno Ball at 8 p.m. Saturday, February 11 on the Rozsa Center Stage.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university founded in 1885 in Houghton, Michigan, and is home to more than 7,000 students from 55 countries around the world. Consistently ranked among the best universities in the country for return on investment, Michigan’s flagship technological university offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, computing, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, and the arts. The rural campus is situated just miles from Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, offering year-round opportunities for outdoor adventure.
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