CMI organizes youth event for National Engineers Week and Rocky Mountain MESA Day Celebration

CMI researchers from Colorado School of Mines conducted the activity for this highlight

Innovation  
The Critical Materials Innovation Hub Education and Workforce Development team at Colorado School of Mines planned he National Engineers Week and Rocky Mountain MESA Day Celebration, held February 20, 2025, at Colorado School of Mines. needed by U.S. industry to assure supply chains.

Achievement

  • CMI and NEXUS, a research partnership between CMI Team members Colorado School of Mines and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, welcomed nearly 100 high school undergrad and graduate students and industry members to celebrate National Engineers Week. 
  • The Rocky Mountain Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (RM MESA) students represent nine schools from Denver and surrounding communities. They problem solved an engineering project and heard a Mines student panel.

Hub Target Addressed  
Training the critical materials workforce of the future.  
 

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