Stout hosts Make48 event for regional high schools to promote engineering, ingenuity

Matthew Baughman, The Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis.
Updated ·4 min read

Nov. 26—MENOMONIE — At the University of Wisconsin-Stout, six regional high schools were invited into the campus' Fab Lab to solve one problem: How can you recycle wastewater?

As part of a Make48 event that the university hosted, six teams from Altoona, Chippewa Falls, Menomonie, Amery, Neillsville and St. Croix Central were given two days to address the problem and develop a unique prototype.

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