Projects

LEGO KingDOME

For the past 5 years, LEGO KingDOME has been a tradition to our TEA@ND culture. From 8 AM to Midnight, TEA@ND takes over Midfield Commons in Notre Dame’s Duncan Student Center to build a LEGO theme park, encouraging every participant to let out their inner kid for the day. Through this event, we are able to reach out to the families of University staff and faculty, the local South Bend community, and students to come and join us in our endeavor.

We have been honored to receive the award for Best Club Event from the Notre Dame Club Coordination Council and Student Activities Office twice: once in 2020 and most recently in 2024. Though the LEGOs are only temporary, we hope we are able to help create memories that last.

Haunted House

Animatronic Tiki-Bird: Guinney

TEAscape Rooms

Over the past year, our club has worked on a long term project— an escape room. Bringing together skillsets found throughout the club, we have planned and built a portable escape room. This experience is offered to other student groups and residences as a team-building exercise and an opportunity for our members to operate the escape room and interact face to face with its users.

 

Competitions:

Toronto Metropolitan University Thrill Design Competition

Ride Engineering Competition

For 3 of the last 4 years, TEA@ND has participated in the Ride Engineering Competition, previously the Iowa State University Ride Engineering Competition. In this competition, we are tasked with designing and building a scale model themed attraction. Our attraction must meet certain g-force and cost requirements as well as operate for a complete eight hours. Pictured below are our three attractions we have submitted: Dr Tremble’s, Tombstone Tumble, and Blizzard Lizzard