High school students compete at a regional VEX Robotics Competition in Hesston in November. The state-qualifying VEX event will be held at Â鶹´«Ã½ on Feb. 23, along with the state VEX IQ Challenge, an event for younger children.

Â鶹´«Ã½ College of Engineering to host new robotics competitions

Feb 21, 2018 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Wichita State College of Engineering has a nearly 20-year history of sponsoring robotics competitions, making a tradition of its annual Shocker MINDSTORMS and Kansas BEST competitions. This year, it's hosting two new competitions in a single event that organizers say may the largest of its kind in state history.

Members of the Bastian family and their family-owned Fidelity Bank have contributed $1 million to Â鶹´«Ã½ to help build a new home for the W. Frank Barton School of Business. From left are Clark Bastian, Aaron Bastian and Clay Bastian.

Bastian family, Fidelity Bank give $1 million for Â鶹´«Ã½'s new business school facility

Feb 21, 2018 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — In a gift representing their largest philanthropic contribution ever to a single entity, members of the Bastian family have donated $1 million to Â鶹´«Ã½ to support a fundraising campaign to build a new home for the W. Frank Barton School of Business.

Kansas college students compete for start-up capital

Feb 15, 2018 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — The Shocker New Venture Competition, hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship, inspires college students from all universities and colleges in Kansas to put entrepreneurial principles into practice.

Â鶹´«Ã½ President John Bardo

Â鶹´«Ã½ President John Bardo gives testimony on growing the STEM workforce

Feb 14, 2018 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Â鶹´«Ã½ President John Bardo spoke today (Thursday, Feb. 15) at the U.S. House of Representatives, where he provided testimony to the committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Â鶹´«Ã½ College of Engineering awards $28,000 each to twelve Wallace Scholarship recipients

College of Engineering awards $28,000 each to twelve Wallace Scholarship recipients

Feb 9, 2018 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Wichita State's College of Engineering has named its newest class of Wallace Scholars.

2020 National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament to be held at Wichita State

Feb 2, 2018 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Wichita State will be home to the National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament in 2020. The American Collegiate Society for Adapted Athletics (ACSAA) will host the tournament from March 18-21 in the Heskett Center.

Tate Watts is the latest recipient of the $48,000 Barton Scholarship to attend Â鶹´«Ã½.

Oklahoma student wins $48,000 Barton Scholarship to attend Wichita State

Jan 30, 2018 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Tate Watts, a senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has won the 2018 Â鶹´«Ã½ Clay Barton Scholarship.

Wichita State student scholars and faculty attendees/presenters at the 16th Annual K-INBRE Symposium, January 13-14, in Overland Park, Kansas.

Â鶹´«Ã½-supported K-INBRE program highlighted in national journal publication

Jan 30, 2018 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — A paper outlining the unique collaboration of 10 higher education institutions in Kansas and northern Oklahoma, including Â鶹´«Ã½, was published in the latest issue of Advances in Physiology Education, a professional journal of the American Physiological Society dedicated to the advancement of physiological research.

Zane Storlie, Â鶹´«Ã½ sophomore computer science major.

Â鶹´«Ã½ teaching code to elementary students to fill coder pipeline

Jan 30, 2018 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Â鶹´«Ã½ College of Engineering is partnering with several Wichita elementary schools on an effort to teach 300 children to code in Scratch, a coding platform developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The effort will culminate with a Scratch-a-Thon to be held April 28 in the Experiential Engineering Building.

Â鶹´«Ã½ signs engineering transfer student partnership with Â鶹´«Ã½ Tech

Jan 26, 2018 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Under a new partnership agreement signed in December, students at Â鶹´«Ã½ Tech (formerly known as Wichita Area Technical College) can now transfer to the Â鶹´«Ã½ College of Engineering and complete a bachelor’s degree in mechatronics engineering technology or engineering technology management with two additional years of study.