Mines Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week ended on Saturday, January 21, 2017, with the Mines Innovation Challenge kick-off workshop. The week’s activities included the grand opening of the Blaster Design Factory, several workshop demonstrations and the Grand Challenge Scholars Program Launch. This year’s theme was “Sustainability in Natural Resource Industries.” The goal of this team-based competition is to apply creative, innovative thinking to real world challenges in the mining and oil & gas industries… Read more…