UW-Stout’s Fab Lab hosts regional high school teams in Make48 engineering, innovation competition
16 Nov 2023
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Two days, six regional high school teams, one problem to solve.
To celebrate the maker mindset, UW-Stout hosted Make48, a long-running 48-hour competition, in which students invent physical prototypes to solve real-world problems.
Teams from Altoona, Chippewa Falls and Menomonie, as well as Amery, Neillsville and St. Croix Central, converged on UW-Stout from Oct. 27-29, to compete for a cash prize and scholarships to UW-Stout. The challenge sponsor was 3M Menomonie, which tasked the teams with addressing rainwater conservation.
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