Tagged: EIGERlab

An NIU engineering student welding

The competitive edge

NIU, Rockford hail new partner in boosting manufacturing

  • November 12, 2015
Teresa Beach-Shelow knows exactly what she wants from the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, the UI LABS collaboration that will launch its first-ever chapter in Rockford. Beach-Shelow is the…

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FastPitch winner PJ McGuire, left, received the “giant check” from EIGERlab’s Sherry Pritz for her Wraperoo.

Designers, builders, makers and dreamers

NIU EIGERlab’s FastPitch Competition celebrates entrepreneurship

  • June 18, 2015
Jodi May, the sole proprietor of Sugar Britches, brought her handmade candies. May is currently a wholesaler, but someday she’d like to open a small store in downtown Rockton, Ill.,…

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