Two days, six regional high school teams, one problem to solve.
To celebrate the maker mindset, University of Wisconsin-Stout hosted Make48, a long-running 48-hour competition in which students invent physical prototypes to solve real-world problems.
Teams from Altoona, Chippewa Falls and Menomonie, as well as Amery, Neillsville and St. Croix Central, converged on UW-Stout from Oct. 27-29 to compete for a cash prize and scholarships to UW-Stout. The challenge sponsor was 3M Menomonie, which tasked the teams with addressing rainwater conservation.
Working side by side with their coaches — regional engineers and mentoring teachers — the teams raced to make a supply run to Ace Hardware in Menomonie, vet their inventions with intellectual property attorneys and produce a working prototype in UW-Stout’s Fab…
