Students from Missouri University of Science and Technology attempt to break the collegiate land speed record in a human powered vehicle... a bicycle of sorts. The event, the World Human Powered Speed Challenge, takes place every year at Battle Mountain, Nevada. Come to Battle Mountain to watch the race and back to campus as the students design, build, and test the bike.
Every year students at Missouri University of Science and Technology build a formula race car and compete with 140 other universities at the Silverdome in Detroit. Follow the UMR car as it is put through its paces and goes on to the big race.
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Schwagstock. Matt Shipley and his band play at a musical festival. Brother Marc Shipley gives his insight into this event and music festivals in general. Dad was One Toke Over The Line... Maybe two.
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Caribbean biodiversity as seen through the eyes of students from Missouri University of Science and Technology as they explore the reefs and jungles of the island of San Salvador in the Bahamas.
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There are a lot of ways you can get dirty. Missouri University of Science and Technology students do it the old fashioned way. They compete in mucking contests with universities from around the world. And what is mucking you ask? It is all of those things that old time miners used to do to dig for ore... and get dirty.
Watch as Universities from around the country race solar cars down old Rout 66 from Chicago to L.A. The winner. Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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Students from Missouri University of Science and Technology spend time learning about the earth at summer field camp in Utah.
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A group of students from the Missouri University of Science and Technology travel to a small town to look for ways in which the residents can use water from a contaminated well for watering crops and fighting fires. The students are part of UMR's geological engineering program.
Computers are everywhere and someone has to research and write all of the programs that do all of that cool stuff. At Missouri University of Science and Technology there is a computer lab where the best of the best hang out, trying to figure out new ways of doing new things with computers.
