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Iowa State College engineering students follow the Iowa State College military band along the cinder path, a roadway connecting Ames with the Iowa State campus near what is now Sixth Street and Brookridge Avenue, during the 1910 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Ames. St. Patrick is the patron saint of engineers and this parade in his honor occurred on St. Patrick's Day every year until the beginning of VEISHEA in 1922. The engineers then became one of the student floats in the VEISHEA parade.