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Parts of the machine built by the New Bridge School team, the "Goldberg Knights." (Joshua Wineholt / The Signpost)

Rube Goldberg machine contest builds engineers of the future

Zac Watts January 19, 2018

High school, junior high and elementary school students came together Jan. 19 for an annual Utah Air Force Association and Weber State University Rube Goldberg Competition. Designed to make the simplest...

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Kids create contraptions to dish out breakfast

Chris Nichols January 13, 2018

Weber State University will host a live Rube Goldberg-machine-building contest on Jan. 19. A Rube Goldberg machine is a purposely complicated contraption that uses multiple materials sequentially activated...

Speaker Brian McCullough giving a lecture about the history of Google. (Joshua Wineholt / The Signpost)

History of Google: how the internet happened

Zac Watts October 19, 2017

Brian McCullough, host of the “Internet History” podcast and author of the upcoming book “How the Internet Happened,” spoke at Weber State University on Oct. 17.He delivered an...

Teams gather around the newly revealed challenge to ask questions and begin planning their designs for the FIRST Tech Challenge. (Kellie Plumhof / The Signpost)

Robotics season kick-off reveals new challenges

Kellie Plumhof September 11, 2016

Crowds gathered at the Weber State University Davis campus early on Sept. 10 to watch the global premiere of the FIRST Tech Challenge game reveal.For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,...

A WSU PREP student displays a robot she programmed at the camp's closing ceremony on Wednesday, July 20.   The robot was programmed to sensor the edge of the table to prevent it from falling off. (Emily Crooks / The Signpost)

STEM summer camp finishes on a high note

Jasmine Pittman July 25, 2016

On July 20, the closing ceremony for WSU Prep summer camp was held at WSU in order to give students a chance to show off their work.Over 140 students finished the seven week program and were able to display...

WSU to host STEM camp by girls, for girls

Jasmine Pittman July 11, 2016

At the end of July, Weber State University will play host to a summer camp called Girls Go Digital, which focuses on teaching girls digital skills such as coding and designing. The event will take place...

Parents and daughters team up to engineer and problem solve

Parents and daughters team up to engineer and problem solve

Emily Ferguson December 16, 2015

The brainpower of future engineers floated through the ballrooms of the Shepherd Union ballrooms at Weber State University on Saturday. Parent/Daughter Engineering Day, which kicked off Friday...

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