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Engineering students get head start

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 3:25pm

OGDEN — Engineering students in Ogden and Weber school districts are graduating from high school ready for real life.

The students have participated in Project Lead the Way, a national program designed to prepare students to enter college not only with some college credits in hand, but with practical work experience as well.

Roger Snow is one of the teachers at Ogden High School, and he works with local businesses, so they in turn work with students on senior projects. Some of those students also work into internships with the businesses.

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Ogden-Weber Tech offers manufacturing camp June

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 11:54pm

OGDEN -- Ogden-Weber Tech will offer a "Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs" manufacturing camp in June for junior high and high school students.

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Ogden High School students are making their own biodiesel fuel out of used cooking oil (right) and using a small jet engine (bottom) to test the fuel, possibly leading neighbors and fellow students to wonder if a jet is taking off nearby. (Photo composite by MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD and BRYAN NIELSEN/Standard-Examiner)

Ogden High students all revved up over biodiesel fuel

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 6:06am

OGDEN — Neighborhood residents and students in and around Ogden High School may wonder why it sounds like a jet has been taking off over the past couple of weeks — but it’s just a little engineering being put to good use.

Students in Roger Snow’s principles of engineering class are getting hands-on experience using recyclable energy by creating biodiesel fuel and then running it through a small jet engine.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Students at Davis High School play “Angry Birds” with stuffed animals and boxes on Wednesday.

'Angry Birds' game breaks up daily grind at Davis High

April Hale Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 10:51pm

KAYSVILLE -- Stuffed animals hurtled through the air Wednesday afternoon as Davis High School students put their science and engineering skills to the test.

In a full-size mock-up of the popular "Angry Birds" video game, student leaders in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math program showed their peers the joy that can come from science.

"We were looking for a way to get our cause out," said STEM student leader Daniel Page, 17. "We wanted to show some real-life experience."

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Spencer Coe, from Roy High School, works on a robot he is making at Two Rivers High School. The students are part of Project Lead the Way, an engineering program that allows high school students to receive college training in engineering.

Two Rivers High School in Ogden receives national award

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 7:40pm

OGDEN — Weber School District is sending hundreds of high school students out into the world of engineering through its top notch program Project Lead the Way, and now, that program is garnering national recognition.

Two Rivers High School houses the pre-engineering program, which includes about 385 students from all the high schools, as well as the ninth graders from the junior high schools in the district.

Students are bused to Two Rivers, every day, to take a variety of engineering classes ranging from civil to aerospace engineering. Students receive college credit for the classes.

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WSU-Hill form new partnership for electronic engineers

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 26, 2011 - 10:38pm

HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- A new partnership between the state's largest single-site employer and the Top of Utah's largest institution of learning has officials at both places looking forward to the future.

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Heather Wokurka, of Sunset, will receive the first-ever degree in WSU’s electronics engineering department. At ATK, in Promontory, she works on static rocket tests. (Courtesy photo)

First WSU electronics engineering grad revved up

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 9, 2011 - 7:24am

OGDEN -- When Heather Wokurka considered updating her Weber State University electronics engineering technology degree with night classes in WSU's new electronics engineering department, the decision wasn't exactly rocket science.

Rocket science is Wokurka's day job.

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Bioengineering students Jessica Ashmead (left), 20, and Annicka Carter, 20, sit together on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Thursday. The pair invented the OptiGuide surgical tool as part of a class and won a grant at the Collegiate Inventors Competition in Washington, D.C., to continuing developing the tool.

Fremont grad, partner invent lighted surgical tool

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, November 21, 2011 - 7:11am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Surgeons in the near future may have even better lighting when they cut open a patient, thanks to a Fremont High School graduate.

Jessica Ashmead, who is now a student at University of Utah, was chosen as a finalist in the national Collegiate Inventors Competition after she and her bioengineering partner, Annicka Carter, of Sandy, invented OptiGuide, a specially lighted medical retractor that could be used inside the surgical cavity.

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Shayna Johnson (left), 10, and Abby Morton, 11, of Wasatch Elementary School, try to complete a mission with their Lego robot at Hill Field Elementary School in Clearfield on Saturday.

Legos aren't just a toy for students building robots

April Hale Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, November 12, 2011 - 10:05pm

CLEARFIELD -- For eighth-grader Carson Crook, building Lego creations is a means to an end.

"I want to be an aeronautical or computer engineer," he said. "(The FIRST Lego League) is experience with computers and building stuff."

Crook, a member of the FIRST Lego League (FIRST: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) at North Davis Junior High School, participated in a clash of robot skills against teams from Wasatch and Hill Field elementary schools.

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Khalil Hicks (left) steers his robot on Friday at Northridge High School in Layton. Much of a $660,000 grant recently awarded to the school will benefit the popular robotics class.

Northridge High gets funds for engineering, math, science

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 8:11am

LAYTON -- Northridge High School is building a new stadium, and the competitors who will do battle there are still in the early construction phase.

Thanks to a $660,000 grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Educational Partnership, Northridge will have extra money for its engineering, science and math departments. A good chunk of the cash is going to the newly formed robotics class.

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(KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner) David Ferro sits in his office at Weber State University in Ogden recently. He is the new dean of the College of Applied Science & Technology.

New WSU dean's vision: Realize possibilities for people, economy, society

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 12:11am

OGDEN -- David Ferro doesn't just want to build a better computer program, electronic design, automobile, interior design or construction-management model.

Weber State University's new dean of the College of Applied Science & Technology wants to build his students into better people who possess those cutting-edge skills.

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George Edwin Lowe

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 11:19pm

George Edwin Lowe, born June 26, 1936, died Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011. Family and friends can share memories at Huntsville City Park at 1 p.m. Oct. 1. Cremation entrusted to Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. Post condolences at www.lindquistmortuary.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Above, Forest Kern, 14, picks up his robot after it flipped over during a game of robot soccer on Friday on the last day of the weeklong Nubots Summer Robotics Camp at Weber State University in Ogden. Below, two robots duke it out during a game of robot soccer.

Area students learn robotics at engineering camp

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, July 9, 2011 - 12:15am

OGDEN -- Soccer became more than a game this week for high school students participating in the Nubots Robotics Camp.

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Karl Mentzel and Shane Sammon present Shelby Edwards the prestigious Northrop Grumman Engineering Scholars award, which is given to promising high school seniors interested in pursuing a career in engineering. (Courtesy of Northrop Grumman)

Weber High students wins Northrup scholarship

Contributor Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 11:48am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced the winners of its third annual Northrop Grumman Engineering Scholars program in the greater Salt Lake City community, awarding two $10,000 college scholarships -- payable in $2,500 annual installments over four years -- to promising high school seniors interested in pursuing a career in engineering.

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Adam Harding takes apart a VCR as part of Camp Invention at Mountain View Elementary School in Layton on Wednesday.

Camp gets kids excited about inventing, problem-solving

Jasen Asay, Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 11:50pm

LAYTON -- Six-year-old Adam Harding would not shift his focus from the old VCR machine he was disassembling. Steadily, he turned the screwdriver to loosen a screw so he could remove another part from the old appliance.

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