The day was the 24th of February 2010 and BEST Lund was about to organize its first engineering competition ever. 28 stoked participants was hanging on the locks at noon, eager to dash their knowledge.

The competition was held in Gasquesalen, Kårhuset on LTH:s campus and the BEST group had cooked moussaka to start the day with for both participants and other hungry students at the university.

The moussaka was a great hit and filled with energy the teams was informed about the competition. 3 hours of working time, rules, points etcetera.

The competition was on a basic level and the task was to build a boat that could carry an as heavy load as possible, from the same base of material.

The teams that was most succesfull was in following order:

1) Grabbarna Grus

2) Zero Space

3) Äh, hur svårt kan det va?

Be aware nordic, Lund has their team for NordBEC ready now!!!

After spending a few weeks in hibernation, finally it was time for some real and fun-filled activity at BEST. It could not have been better than a Motivation Weekend (MW). For those of you who are wondering what this MW is, it's a weekend activity at BEST where members from one LBG (Local BEST Group) host the members of another LBG and have some activities and get motivated to work for BEST. It was the weekend from 5th to 7th February and this time it was double the fun since we had 3 LBGs meeting together for the MW. The hosts were LBG Aalborg and the other LBG joining us was Copenhagen. In total we were about 30 crazy BESTies having one hell of a weekend, just the kind of motivation everyone needed.

We started late afternoon on Friday, 5th February. It was a great idea for us from Lund, to travel by a big car since Aalborg was not that far away and it is always more fun to travel by car.So, for us the party started on car itself. We never realized how we arrived at the cabin in Aalborg although it was nearly 5 hours journey. The cabin was outside of Aalborg city. It was a summer house and it would have been heaven if it was summer but still it was a great place, specially when you want to get away from your usual routine. It was typical BEST Friday night party, and it was even more bigger, since it was lot of Danish people and some cheap danish beer and alcohol. Most of us were new, it was a bit difficult to remember all the names. The rest of the night was just partying and more partying.

The next day there were some interesting sessions. The session about "Time Management" was something very useful, there were also other sessions going on in parallel. After this there was a session about "Fund Raising", which was mainly about how to organize activities through which we could raise some funds for BEST activities. In the evening it was time for the theme party, the theme was FASTELAVN which was basically Carnival of Denmark, so everyone had to dress up really funny and crazy. After the dinner it was time for a traditional Danish game. It was Patrick from LBG Lund who won the game and he was crowned the King for the evening and he had the chance to select a Queen and no one knows why he chose a guy to be the Queen :) After this it was yet again time for another party night.

Next day it was soon time to leave, it was so quick, it looked like the weekend was over in just a few seconds. But, it was quite amazing and an awesome weekend. As we were leaving, everyone looked motivated and ready to take part in the activities of BEST. Just as we were leaving, we decided to take a small tour around Aalborg since none of us had ever visited the city. Although the city looked deserted with no one on the streets (since it was a freezing cold Sunday), it was nice to go around the city, a much bigger city than Lund. It was around 10pm on Sunday night by the time we reached Lund. It was a perfect weekend, taking a break from the normal weekend activities.