Vancouver, Canada—September 18, 2009—A group of UBC Engineering alumni—Jonathan Tippett (BASc ‘99), Leigh Christie (BASc ‘04), and Charlie Brinson (BASc ‘04)—and their team begin a journey today with their creation “The Mondo Spider” that will end in New York with a guest appearance at Gadgetoff, an invitation-only event slated for Friday, September 25, 2009.
According to its website, Gadgetoff is a gathering of technological and artistic innovation where participants unveil the future with demonstrations, conversations, performances and pyrotechnics, and brings the world’s most inventive minds and coolest devices to one amazing geek-a-thon-sneak-peek-a-thon.
“The Mondo Spider is triumph of art, engineering and inspired human perseverance,” says Jonathan Tippett. “We are floored by the honour of being invited to Gadgetoff and grateful for the support UBC has provided to enable us to attend. We are proud to be alumni of a faculty that produces free-minded creative thinkers with the motivation to conceive and execute radical projects like the Mondo Spider, well beyond the mandate of academia or industry.”
Stay tuned with the journey by following the blog and tweets at:
www.mondospider.com/blog
http://twitter.com/mondospider
Contact
ErinRose Handy
Communications Manager
Faculty of Applied Science
The University of British Columbia
Tel: 604.822.1524
E-mail: erinrose.handy@ubc.ca
