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| Transcript | Office of University Relations SDSM& T News 501 E. St. Joseph Street • Rapid City, SD 57701- 3995 Phone: ( 605) 394- 6082/ 2554 • Fax: ( 605) 394- 6177 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ( February 20, 1998) PROFESSOR JACK WEYLAND WILL PRESENT " JUST IN IT FOR THE TOYS" / OVER 500 AREA 6TH - 12TH GRADERS TO ATTEND ENGINEERS WEEK EVENTS AT SDSM& T Professor Jack Weyland will present " Just In It for the Toys" at 11: 00 a. m., Friday, February 27, in the Surbeck Center Ballroom on the SDSM& T campus. Weyland's presentation will focus on how to have fun with physics. Over 500 area 6th- 12th graders are scheduled to attend Professor Weyland's program. As part of SDSM& T's Engineer Week activities, students from area middle, junior and senior high schools will also tour various departments on campus and observe experiments/ displays in the participating departments. Tours will be conduced by SDSM& T's ROTC students and Student Ambassadors. The students also will have sack lunches with South Dakota Tech students in the campus departments. Weyland, who currently is a professor of physics at Ricks College in Idaho, taught physics at SDSM& T for 25 years. In 1993 he received SDSM& T's Presidential Award for Outstanding Professor in recognition of his excellence in teaching. Weyland has a B. S. degree form Montana State University and a Ph. D. from Brigham Young University. He has written a science book for youth called Megapowers and also wrote an article called " Science Goes to the Movies" for the 1994 Science Yearbook for World Book Encyclopedia. Weyland also has presented a program called " Hollywood's Greatest Science Bloopers" on a Canadian television station. Educators interested in bringing their students to Professor Weyland's program or other Engineers Week activities can make reservations by calling Vi Stoltz in the SDSM& T's Vice President's Office at 394- 2256. ++ 30++ ( f:\ programs\ dept\ univrel\ pressrele\ 298\ Weyland fax/ stwd) |
| Creator | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. University Relations; |
| Subject | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; |
| Local Subject | Engineers Week
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| Digital Publisher | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Devereaux Library
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| Date | 1998-02-20 |
| Type | Text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Language | eng |
| Relation | Is part of Office of University Relations SDSM&T News Collection |
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| Submitting Institution | Devereaux Library. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. |
| Date Digital | 2009 |
| CONTENTdm number | 990 |
| CONTENTdm file name | 991.pdf |
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