{"id":170,"date":"2015-01-31T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/?p=170"},"modified":"2021-01-02T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T20:26:05","slug":"usc-pswc-2015-team-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/2015\/01\/usc-pswc-2015-team-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"USC PSWC 2015 Team Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019ve finalized our USC team for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/uscasce.com\/pacific-southwest-conference\/\">PSWC<\/a>&nbsp;2015! We\u2019ll be bringing 52 members to compete in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/uscasce.com\/concrete-canoe\/\">concrete canoe<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/uscasce.com\/steel-bridge\">steel bridge<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/uscasce.com\/environmental\">environmental design<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/uscasce.com\/geotech\">geowall<\/a>, transportation, dog house, surveying, concrete bowling, and many more events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the largest competition team we\u2019ve brought to PSWC in recent history, and we\u2019re confident that our excellent members can put up a good fight in defending our 3rd place overall finish from last year\u2019s conference in San Diego. Here\u2019s a comparison between our teams from last year and this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><th><\/th><th>2014 USC Team<\/th><th>2015 USC Team<\/th><\/tr><tr><th>Team Size<\/th><td>41<\/td><td>52<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Freshmen<\/th><td>1<\/td><td>7<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Percent Female<\/th><td>46%<\/td><td>48%<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Formal Design Teams<\/th><td>4<\/td><td>8<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Distance to PSWC<\/th><td>125 miles<\/td><td>500 miles<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Total Cost for USC ASCE<\/th><td>$11,100<\/td><td>$16,800<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Corporate Sponsorship<\/th><td>$750<\/td><td><a href=\"http:\/\/uscasce.com\/sponsors\/\">$3,350<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/uscasce.com\/sponsorship\/\">and counting<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite facing a further, more expensive trip, our chapter has come together to bring a larger, more diverse team. Now the hard work is kicking in as our eight major and secondary design teams design and build their projects. It\u2019s never too late to get involved, even if you aren\u2019t coming to PSWC!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\" id=\"attachment_2921\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uscasce.com\/2015\/01\/usc-pswc-2015-team-announced\/wp_20150130_003-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/uscasce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WP_20150130_003-2-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"Dog House team members brainstorm and sketch designs during our meeting.\" class=\"wp-image-2921\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Dog House team members brainstorm and sketch designs during our meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve finalized our USC team for&nbsp;PSWC&nbsp;2015! We\u2019ll be bringing 52 members to compete in&nbsp;concrete canoe,&nbsp;steel bridge,&nbsp;environmental design,&nbsp;geowall, transportation, dog house, surveying, concrete bowling, and many more events. This is the largest competition team we\u2019ve brought to PSWC in recent history, and we\u2019re confident that our excellent members can put up a good fight in defending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/2015\/01\/usc-pswc-2015-team-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USC PSWC 2015 Team Announced<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pswc","tag-pswc-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celloexpressions.com\/archive-uscasce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}