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Tagged: NIU-Rockford

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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Stateline Quiz Bowl champs Rockford Auburn High School

Questions, Answers, Scholarships

Rockford Auburn High School claims first Stateline Quiz Bowl crown

  • May 30, 2015
Brilliance soared into the spotlight Friday night at NIU-Rockford along with an important plea to the teenage wunderkinds in competition there: Rockford needs them to come home after their college…

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Stateline Quiz Bowl

Teenage Brains at Work

Rockford’s Stateline Quiz Bowl nears live finale, first champion

  • May 20, 2015
Sometimes the cool-as-cucumbers teens press their buzzers and answer before host Nick Toma can complete the question. And, darn it all, their haste usually doesn’t matter. More often than not,…

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