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Focusing on Students: Six Webcams Capture Campus
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While students at Michigan Tech focus on building snow statues, web cams are focused on them.
Students at the university, located in Michigan's snowy Upper Peninsula, have started gearing up for the school's annual Winter Carnival. Now parents, friends, alumni and anyone with an Internet connection can watch.
The university has six cameras providing campus views and glimpses of students building their towering snow sculptures and playing broomball, a favorite winter sport.
Winter Carnival, which takes place February 12-16 this year, is a boon to the local economy. Hotels within a 40-mile radius are sold out each year. Students have a couple of days off, when they run human dog sled races, and play snow volleyball and broomball (hockey with boots, brooms and a soccer ball).
Students also participate in ice bowling, flinging a willing human bowling ball on a snow saucer down the ice at some giant-sized bowling pins.
Besides the web cams, the Winter Carnival web site provides photos, updated daily, and coverage of all of the events. The university's web site (www.mtu.edu) also provides an interactive map and a virtual campus tour.
To tune in to the web cams, go to wintercarnival.mtu.edu
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