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STEM night lights up boxes and faces

STEM night lights up boxes and faces

Kainoa Nunez November 2, 2018

Weber State University hosted its ninth-consecutive Parent-Daughter Engineering Night on Oct. 26. It’s a way to help young girls get more involved in engineering, a predominately male field. Dana...

Nuclear core team concentrates to win the first round. ( Mustafa Alshilati/ the signpost)

Teens deploy robots in tech tournament

Adam Livingston February 15, 2018

A competition broke out on Feb. 10 in the Swenson Gym as robots built by teenagers went to war.According to teen participants ages 12-18, the For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology...

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...

As part of the March 31 SheTech Explorer Day, attendes participate in a tech challenge: each team brainstorms and design a way of shopping in the future, one which allows consumers to have the convenience of online shopping and tangible benefits of brick and mortar stores. (Joshua Wineholt / The Signpost)

All-female STEM conference blazes trail for women in STEM

Kellie Plumhof April 4, 2017

Weber State University transformed from college campus to STEM central on March 31, while over 400 high school girls, volunteers and mentors flooded the campus for the first ever all-female STEM conference:...

Parents and daughters test their drawbridges at Weber State University's Parent-Daughter Engineering Day in the Shepherd Union on Nov. 19. The annual event hopes to encourage women to pursue STEM fields. (Dalton Flandro / The Signpost)

Event helps emphasize importance of women in STEM

November 20, 2016

Teams of parents and their daughters spent Nov. 18–19 learning to problem solve and work together to find creative engineering solutions. The 6th annual Parent-Daughter Engineering Day was held at...

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...

Students at WSU PREP are given a number of lives to complete a ropes course as a team without touching the ground, or "lava." (Emily Crooks / The Signpost)

WSU program sharpens kids’ science skills

Jasmine Pittman June 13, 2016

The College of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology is partnering with the College of Science to offer a seven week long math and science focused summer school.WSU Pre-Freshman Program, known as...

Robotics teams from throughout Utah and neighboring states competed in various challenges at the FIRST Tech Robotics Competition.  (The Signpost/Christina Huerta)

Robots duke it out for the championship

Nathan Beach February 22, 2016

In the Swenson Building on Feb. 20, kids from all over Utah, and some from out of state, gathered together to compete for the Utah State Championship of the FIRST Tech Challenge or FTC. The room was...

Elementary and junior-high children move through lego obstacles to battle their robots at the FIRST Lego League Qualifier Tournament in the Shepherd Union on Saturday, Jan. 9. The event was hosted by Weber State University's College of Engineering, Applied Science & Technology. (Daniel Rubio / The Signpost)

Lego League robots invade Weber

Nathan Beach January 19, 2016

Over 157 kids ranging from fourth to eighth grade gathered in the Shepherd Union ballrooms on Jan. 9 to compete in an engineering competition for this year's First Lego League. This year, the...

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