Alumni

After a career curveball, Le’Toya Garland ’04 reinvented her professional life and now co-owns School of Breaking in Aurora, Colorado.

What better way is there to show your OreGiver love than supporting the Mines causes you care about most to help them win part of the more than $100,000 in bonus funds?

Brothers Chris Saykally ’11 and Derek Saykally ’14 bought AC Transmission Total Car Care in Denver in 2020.

A Mines alum, Mitchell is the State of Colorado’s Commissioner to the Upper Colorado River Commission and will serve a four-year term on the Mines board.

Hunter Knox ’05 and Aleksei Titov ’22 are among the Mines graduates playing a critical role in the development of geothermal energy sources.

As the aerospace industry continues to expand, Colorado School of Mines is preparing the next generation of aerospace professionals to shoot for the stars - no aerospace engineering degree required.

Kraig '10 and Kameron Weaver '12, along with Kraig's wife Michelle, founded The Block, a distillery in Denver's RiNo Art District that creates a range of whiskeys and spirits.

Each of the nine inductees has been recognized as an outstanding industry member through their contributions or leadership.

With the encouragement of an alumni mentor, Catherine Smith ’14 made a career leap from mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering to the oil and gas industry.

Current Mines student Rowan Welch comes from a long line of Orediggers, spanning 124 years and counting: His father, his uncle, two of his great-grandfathers, his great-great uncle and his great-great-grandfather all earned degrees from Mines