More than 100 high-school students from Miami-Dade County attended the Formula E Miami E-Prix. The event, supported by Florida Power and Light's Electrathon program, gives students hands-on experience in designing, building and racing electric vehicles, fostering teamwork and problem-solving skills. The program supplies schools with electric go-kart kits and encourages students to apply their learning by competing to travel the farthest on a single battery charge.

Wichita State University engineering students visited Mueller Elementary School to teach STEM skills through a hands-on project called "Clark the Pug." The activity involved creating a 3D prosthetic for a pug. "It's good for teamwork, how to work together, how to communicate with each other," says Terrance Williams, director of recruitment for WSU College of Engineering. "A lot of times, they're having to work in teams of four or five students, and they have to come up with a design together."

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor Thomas Haigh created the Retrocomputing Lab to give students hands-on, evolutionary experience with technology from the 1980s to the 2000s -- loading spreadsheets from floppy disks, booting up legacy operating systems and playing classic games on old consoles. The lab, which features equipment such as Apple IIe computers and Nintendo 64 consoles, is free from modern internet connectivity and surveillance, and it allows students to understand, explore and appreciate the tactile and transparent nature of earlier computing devices.

Madison Devoux, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, has written a children's book, "Hope is an Engineer," to encourage girls to pursue STEM careers. Devoux, who noticed the lack of female peers in her classes, aims to show that engineering is accessible to everyone. "You can be anything you want to be if you work hard and believe in yourself," Devoux says.

Michigan State University has received a record $50 million donation from the Leinweber Foundation to support the construction of the Engineering and Digital Innovation Center. The $340 million project, expected to be completed by December 2028, will feature digital learning spaces, teaching laboratories and research facilities.

Researchers are increasingly optimistic that quantum computers capable of solving complex tasks could be developed within the next decade, a shift from previous expectations of several decades. This change is due to advancements in quantum error correction and qubit management by teams from Google Quantum AI, Quantinuum, Harvard University, QuEra Computing and the University of Science and Technology of China.

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