If you walked past the quad last Wednesday, you might have wondered what all those students were doing huddled around that bug. No, I don’t mean the creepy, crawly, run across the floor type of bug - I’m talking about the Volkswagen Beetle!
In case you did miss it, Ryerson Engineering students manually pushed a 1955 classic Beetle around and around the quad. They started at 11 a.m. and went for 24 hours with about 100 students taking part in the bug push.
Now while this did look like a pretty decent workout (not to mention the guy that got to sit INSIDE the driver’s seat definitely got the best deal), Engineering students pulled this together to raise money for The Hospital of Sick Children.
This annual event is run by the Ryerson Engineering Students’ Society and it always takes place during National Engineering Week in February. Last week marks the seventh time for this great event. Ryerson raised over $2,000 last year.
One plus this year was that the weather was much better than on the snowy day of the last bug push. I heard one of the pushers gladly comment that this time, horrible weather was NOT included in the day’s event.
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