![people smiling standing in front of a large wooden dumbwaiter](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/8/2024/05/competition_theatre-500x0-c-default.jpg)
Professor Eben Alguire and students Raven Shales, Addie Hoegberg, and Bronwyn Garrett pose in front of their dumbwaiter project.
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Illinois Theatre students traveled to Purdue University to compete in the 2024 Stage Machine Design Competition. For this year’s challenge, design teams were asked to develop the mechanism that raises and lowers a working dumbwaiter for use on a production set. The Illinois Theatre team won Best Overall for their design for the second year in a row. The team, advised by Eben Alguire, was comprised of Raven Shales, Addie Hoegberg, and Bronwyn Garrett.
Congrats!
![people smiling standing in front of a large wooden dumbwaiter](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/8/2024/05/competition_theatre-500x0-c-default.jpg)
Professor Eben Alguire and students Raven Shales, Addie Hoegberg, and Bronwyn Garrett pose in front of their dumbwaiter project.