As part of Colorado's 150th anniversary celebrations in 2026, a team of Colorado School of Mines students will be resurveying the famed Mile High Marker on the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
First-year students will begin their Mines journey this week with the M Climb, the time-honored tradition of hiking Mount Zion and adding their 10-pound rocks to the iconic M.
While many college students are filling their summer breaks with internships and travel opportunities, a group of Mines students is spending theirs in the basement of Brown Hall, working on electrifying a 2024 Ram ProMaster EV van.
Mines students competed at the ASCE national finals in June after being named Overall Symposium Champions at the Region 7 Rocky Mountain Symposium in April.
The annual tradition brought the Class of 2028 together as they climbed Mount Zion, made new friends and experienced the spirit of Mines the Friday before classes started.
A total of 95 percent of recent Mines alums had positive outcomes after graduation, the newest report shows, up from an already high positive outcome rate of 93 percent in 2021-2022.
