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Spark on the Discovery Channel’s daily science information program, Daily Planet

U of T Engineering student design club Spark was featured March 12 on the Discovery Channel’s daily science information program, Daily Planet.

The team was given a big challenge, which was appropriate as the show was celebrating “Gigantic Week.” They were asked to build a giant tower of playing cards in the program’s studio using a new construction toy called Skallops, which are laser cut clips. The result: a tribute to the Eiffel Tower that was more than eight-feet high.

“The main reason we chose the Eiffel Tower was because it was such a world icon and we figured the audience would be able to recognize it, so we had to make sure all the modules we built were proportional to each other. There was a lot of background planning that went into place,” said Anmol Kaur (ECE 1T3), who leads the Spark design team.

The club was established to allow students to explore their design interests beyond the classroom. Through a combination of workshops and challenges, students blend their creativity, engineering knowledge and design acumen into interesting projects. Among their recent projects were LED tiles displayed in the lobby of the Galbraith building and a giant walk-on piano in the Bahen building.

What’s next for the Spark team? “There are so many neat and fun projects for us to choose from. Some ideas we’ve been tossing around are a big Pinball machine or some Domino Clocks,” said Kaur.

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