Student awards

“We got to see (the building) go from a sketch on notebook paper to the real thing,” said Lindsey Nenne, one of the team’s construction leaders, who graduated in May with her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.

Colorado School of Mines teams had a great showing at the 2024 All in Steel competitions, taking the top prize in one challenge and runner-up in another.

The Mines-ACC team beat out collegiate automotive powerhouses across North America for the first honor of the three-year competition. In this first year, teams were judged on the design of their electric vehicle battery packs.

Mines students in the Spring 2024 Cornerstone Design Competition took on the challenge to make existing objects more useful and less wasteful.

Three Colorado School of Mines students have been awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study or intern abroad during the 2024-2025 academic year

Colorado School of Mines awarded 50 doctorates and 311 master’s degrees May 9. Spring Commencement continues May 10 with three undergraduate ceremonies at 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. in Lockridge Arena.

The student-designed and -built powertrain will be used by mechanical engineering students in an automotive lab class at Mines.

Students Robert Delmark and Natalia McEvoy were recognized for their dedication to the Betsy’s Friends Peer Education Program, which was established in 2021 by Mines alum Steve ‘63 and Carolyn McCandless.

Leading the way was Mines’ Concrete Canoe and Surveying teams, both of which won first place and a bid to nationals in their respective events.

Colorado School of Mines has qualified for the finals of NASA’s 2024 Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Competition. The Capstone Design student team, comprised of seven mechanical engineers and three