Student awards


Students Robert Delmark and Natalia McEvoy were recognized for their dedication to the Betsy’s Friends Peer Education Program, which was established in 2021 by Mines alum Steve ‘63 and Carolyn McCandless.
Leading the way was Mines’ Concrete Canoe and Surveying teams, both of which won first place and a bid to nationals in their respective events.
Colorado School of Mines has qualified for the finals of NASA’s 2024 Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Competition. The Capstone Design student team, comprised of seven mechanical engineers and three
A team of Colorado School of Mines students won the women’s division of the 2024 International Mining Games hosted at Montana Technological University.
KFF Fellows each receive $12,000 in unrestricted funding to support their pursuit of careers in research.
The Ice Diggers will be one of six teams facing off head-to-head this spring at a NASA-designed test facility to see which prototype lunar excavation rover performs best.
Front Range Team, which includes Mines students Kenneth Liang and Chris Tolton, was one of eight groups named winners in the second and final round of the NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge 2023.
What do you do with produced water in the Permian Basin? What can be done to make heater treaters more efficient? Colorado School of Mines student teams took on these questions as part of the 2023 Global Energy Future Initiative (GEFI) Innov8x Challenge.
The Mines quarterback is the first Oredigger to win the national award. Matocha, the 2022 Harlon Hill winner, received his bachelor's degree in computer science in May with a 3.64 GPA and will work on a master's degree this year in his final season of NCAA eligibility.
Emmelia Ashton, a junior majoring in metallurgical and materials engineering, was awarded the scholarship as part of the 2022-2024 Hollings class. She was the only student to win from the state of Colorado this year.