Engineering Design is one of the five basic courses in the Bachelor College. All second-years at every department take this course, sixteen hundred students in all. There isn't a hall at the university that can accommodate so many students at one time. This alone required a fair bit of creativity. But for the final assignment, the finale of which was held in Fenix and Traverse last Friday, some organizational wizardry was absolutely essential. The assignment for the teams was this: conceive, design and produce a prototype of a technical resource for disabled athletes.

Friday was D-Day for the 272 interdepartmental teams. In a pitch lasting no more than ten minutes the teams had to 'sell' their prototypes to a panel of sixteen lecturers and eighty tutors who passed judgment on the resources. Cursor's video reporter Niels Dusseldorp followed team 144 during the construction phase and as they pitched their GripGlove.