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STUDENTS FROM ENGLAND WIN AGAIN AT HARBIN ICE AND SNOW FESTIVAL 2013

By on January 8, 2013 in Emily Stapleton-Jefferis, Harbin, Harbin Engineering University, Nottingham University, S-Jefferis, Snow and Ice Festival 2013

Our Nottingham ice-sculpting students have been hard at work in Harbin, northeast China, producing a hollow Earth Globe sculpture as their entry for a second competition at the 2013 Snow and Ice Festival. In the team’s words, “We won! We really did this time, we came first in our second competition alongside six other first [...]

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NOTTINGHAM UNI TEAM WIN CREATIVITY PRIZE AT ICE AND SNOW FESTIVAL, CHINA

By on January 4, 2013 in Harbin, Ice and Snow Festival 2013, Nottingham University, snow sculpture, Yinguo

The student team from Nottingham University have hauled in a prize at Harbin, the city in northeast China, where one of the world’s biggest Ice and Snow Festivals is running. In the team’s words, “WE WON!!!!!! Well.. the Creativity Prize anyway which is a cash prize of 1000 RMB (about £100), a medal each and [...]

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SNOW SCULPTORS FROM ENGLAND LAND IN CHINA FOR COMPETITION

By on December 21, 2012 in Emily Stapleton-Jefferis, Harbin, Nottingham Uni, snow sculpture

The Nottingham University Snow Sculpture team left from Birmingham Airport early Wednesday this week, and by Friday had flown via Schipol and Beijing to Harbin, northeast China. The temperature there is today is around the -21C mark, so the cold weather gear they packed (one case tipped the scales at more than 30 kg) will [...]

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STUDENT TEAM FROM ENGLAND GO TO CHINA FOR INTERNATIONAL SNOW SCULPTURE COMPETITION

By on December 17, 2012 in Emily Stapleton-Jefferis, Harbin, Ice and Snow Festival, Liman Metolli, Lucy Woodhead, Nottingham Trent University, Peter Westland, Quebec, Sam Hewland, Sapporo

Four students from Nottingham Trent University in the Midlands leave England for China this week, to represent the UK in the 18th Harbin International Snow Sculpture Competition. Harbin, a city in north-east China, hosts one of the world’s four largest ice and snow festivals, matching the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan, Canada’s Quebec City Winter [...]

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