Students and staff in UBC’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) were given the task of creating all 23 Olympic and Paralympic wooden medal podia and the 100 wooden medal trays for the 2010 Winter Games. And yes, they delivered – http://www.cawp.ubc.ca/Whatwedo/CAWPProjects/tabid/3546/Default.aspx
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