EVEN student Katie McQuie at the Global Grand Challenges Summit
EVEN student Katie McQuie represented ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder 2017 at the Global Grand Challenges Summit.
Four ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder engineering students recently returned from the in Washington, D.C., where they rubbed elbows with top scientists and peers tackling the world’s toughest questions.
Students Bridger Baird (CivEngr), Zoey Craun (ArchEngr), Katie McQuie (EnvEngr, ChemEngr) and John Stechschulte (CompSci) represented ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Engineering at the summit July 18-20. A fifth, Kaitlyn Garifi (ElEngr), also was selected but was unable to attend.
The summit aims to inspire the next generation of engineers, policymakers and business leaders to address critically important challenges facing humanity. It’s sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering and its equivalent organizations in China and the U.K.