The most eagerly anticipated was the “Unlimited” Duck race which pitted 15 engineering student teams from Cabrillo College, Monterey Peninsula College and Hartnell College in an intense competition, as Teams have no limitations on their choice of advanced propulsion and steering technologies that they can insert into their 18” tall Inflated Ducks. 

 

1st place winners were MPC’s Aflack team (Manuel Gozzi, & Natalia Rivera), taking 2nd place Cabrillo’s Downstream Duck team (Andrew Bricken, Jacob Burns, Kyle Kessler, & Gavin Miller) took 2nd place and MPC’s Quackedup team (Raphael Gabriel & Noor Benny) took 3rd place. 

 

Valarie Klingelhoefer, ASCA President, noted that the three engineering professors (Hartnell’s Melissa Hornstein, PhD; Cabrillo’s Jo-Ann Panzardi, PhD & MPC’s Tom Rebold, PhD), who embraced supporting the event and motivated their students to participate as competitive teams in the “Unlimited Race”, all confirmed that their students loved the event, were highly pleased and motivated by the cash awards earned by the three winners, learned which engineering solutions worked the best and were already thinking of ways to improve the performance of their Racing ducks for next year. ​