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The winning zero emissions entry in the 2010 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2011 Clean Snowmobile Challenge the Biggest and Greenest Yet

January 18, 2011
By Marcia Goodrich

A record number of teams are coming to Michigan Tech

Oobleck is a non-Newronian fluid that displays the properties of both a liquid and a solid.

Who Says You Can't Walk -- or Run -- on Water?

January 15, 2011
By Jennifer Donovan

Michigan Tech MIND TREKKERS  bring oobleck and other science fun to the Einstein Project Science Expo in Green Bay.

Gayle Bruntjens of the Upper Peninsula Raptor and Wildlife Rehabilitation Center holding Twitters, a cooper's hawk.

Live Birds of Prey at Michigan Tech Friday and Saturday

October 28, 2010
By Marcia Goodrich

Sponsored by the Inter-Residence Hall Council

Making liquid nitrogen ice cream.

Science & Engineering Expo on National Mall: MindTrekkers from Michigan Tech Reveal the Science Behind the Mystery

October 18, 2010
By Jennifer Donovan

MindTrekkers, a traveling science road show produced by Youth Programs at Michigan Tech, will share some of the stranger mysteries of science with hundreds of thousands of visitors to the first USA Science and Engineering Expo Oct. 23-24 on the National Mall.  It is one of two Tech exhibits invited to the Expo in Washington, DC.

A FLIR camera image uses light intensity or color brightness to show levels of heat in the Santiaguito Volcano's crater in Guatemala.

Science & Engineering Expo on National Mall: Michigan Tech NSF Program Answers Burning Questions About Volcanoes

October 18, 2010
By Jillian Schwab

Michigan Tech was invited to bring two hands-on science education exhibits to the first USA Science & Engineering Expo in Washington, DC.  The University's NSF-funded PIRE (Partnership for International Research and Education) program is demonstrating some of the tools they use to monitor volcanoes, and MindTrekkers brings Youth Programs' hands-on science show to the two-day public celebration on the National Mall in DC.  

Touching a Van de Graaff generator makes your hair stand on end.

It Might Make Your Hair Stand on End

July 23, 2010
By Jennifer Donovan

Michigan Tech Youth Programs brings hair-raising science activities to 2010 national Boy Scout Jamboree.

High school students learn about pollution in the Great Lakes on a week-long biology sail on the schooner Denis Sullivan.

High School Students Sail the Great Lakes

July 14, 2010
By Danny Messinger

High school students from three states explore Great Lakes biology on the tall ship, Denis Sullivan. 

Mike Link and Kate Crowley are hiking the entire Lake Superior shoreline.

It's Much More Than a Walk in the Park

May 21, 2010
By Jennifer Donovan

A retired Minnesota couple is walking around Lake Superior to help raise awareness of the lake as a resource and fresh water issues. 

Local High School Students Get Innovative for National Lab Day

May 6, 2010
By Kara Sokol

Local high school students get hands-on science, technology and engineering experiences on National Lab Day at Michigan Tech.

Caleb Wendel, Michigan Tech alumnus and owner of The Bike Shop,  and Kyle Bordeau, president of the Copper Country Cycling Club, work on an abandoned bike.

Orphan Bikes Prepared for Adoption

April 21, 2010
By Jennifer Donovan

Students, alumni, campus police and local businessmen repair bikes abandoned on Michigan Tech campus.

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