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Junior Bladesmithing Championship Seeks High School Sword and Knifemakers from Across the United Sates

South Dakota Mines annual Junior Bladesmithing Championship is now accepting applications. The competition is open to high school students across the nation who can produce a blade by hand-hammering or trip-hammer forging.

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Raven Industries Gives $150,000 to South Dakota Mines for New Scholarship and Avionics Upgrades

Mines Career Fair Proves Key for South Dakota’s Economy

Prospective Students Invited to Go to Mines Events

High Impact Hardrocker - Geraldean Lynn Fluke

Mines Receives Largest Gift in University History, Naming Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in Honor of Alumna Karen M. Swindler

Mines Hosts Community Update on Higher Education Task Force

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Thursday, September 30, 2021

Mines Students Help Create Life Size “Operation” Game for STEM Outreach Events

A multidisciplinary group of South Dakota Mines students, faculty and staff have created a life-size game of “operation” for use in STEM-based outreach events. The Pre-Health Organ Extraction Board Exhibit, also known as PHOEBE, includes an electrical system that buzzes if the participant fails to extract the 3D printed organ properly.

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

South Dakota Mines Researchers Aid NASA in Combing Space Station Research Data

South Dakota Mines student and faculty researchers have received $300,000 in grants from NASA to help model microgravity in a rotating wall vessel and to comb the massive dataset gathered during a wide range of experiments on the space station and the space shuttle.

Friday, September 24, 2021

South Dakota Mines Enrollment Sees Little Change in 2021

Enrollment at South Dakota Mines is down by 59 students this year with a headcount of 2,418 undergraduate students compared to 2,477 in fall 2020. While overall headcount is down, the number of incoming freshmen is up by 8% from 455 in 2020 to 491 this fall.

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

South Dakota Mines Hosts Annual Pumpkin Chucking Event

South Dakota Mines plans to hold its annual pumpkin catapult competition at the Great Downtown Pumpkin Festival beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25 in Memorial Park.

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Two Mines Computer Science Students Build New Dating App Based on Memes

Two South Dakota Mines graduates decided to use their degrees in computer science to build a new dating app. The students built a unique algorithm that connects users based on their taste in memes.

Monday, September 20, 2021

Mines Fall 2021 STEAM Cafés: The First Woman Computer Programmer, Rural Studies, Mysterious Shipwrecks, and More

Topics for the fall STEAM Café series range from a look at the very first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, to a look at the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior more than 45 years ago.

Monday, September 20, 2021

Special Assistant Attorney General Presented Constitution Day Talk at Mines

South Dakota Mines hosted speaker Pat West on Sept. 17, 2021, for the annual talk celebrating the U.S. Constitution.

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