Call for Engineers with Hidden Talents
Singers, saxophonists, and stand-up comedians take note: Engineers Got Talent!, the BU College of Engineering’s annual talent show, returns to the stage, live and in person, this spring.
“We encourage you to share your talent, whether you’re a musician, a comic, a juggler, a magician, a dancer, or a poet,” Associate Professor Dan Cole (ME), the event’s organizer, announced in an email to the ENG community. “All acts are welcome!”
The 2022 Engineers Got Talent! Extravaganza is scheduled for Friday, April 22, at 5 p.m. At present, the event is planned as a live show taking place on the Photonics Building’s 9th floor. (Plan B is a virtual gathering, as happened last year.)
Performers will have at least five minutes in the spotlight, or perhaps more, depending on the length of the bill. Groups of ENG students, alumni, faculty, and staff can also pool their musical or other abilities to form bands, for example.
The variety show has been a fixture of ENG’s spring semester since 2009. Besides being a fun social event, it also showcases the imagination and inventive spirit at the heart of engineering, says Cole.
“The greatest of the research papers, products, and inventions in history shine not just with logic, data, and analysis, but with creativity,” Cole wrote in the email. “Think of people like Feynman, Einstein, Tesla, Edison, Jobs—their creativity was a part of their science and engineering.”
Interested performers are asked to sign up on this Google form by March 31.
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