News & Press
Leadership High School Job-Ghosting Program
April 1, 2010
The MSU-Northern Bio-Energy Center hosted an ambitious young lady from the Havre High School today, thanks Havre’s Leadership High School program. The program, run by the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce, gives students the opportunity to “job-shadow” with a local business or organization in a field that interests them.
Brittanee Korb, a Junior from Havre High, wants to be a Chemical Engineer when she finishes her education. She spent the morning working with lab techs Jessica Sorensen, Taylor Lyon, Megan McKay, and Tom Hlavacek; getting a crash course in the Bio-Energy Center’s chemical analysis equipment, testing protocols, and biodiesel processing plant.
Brittanee said that everyone was very friendly, that there was a lot more going on at the Center than she was expecting, and that the experience was a lot of fun. Brittanee hopes to attend the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology after graduating High School.
HHS Junior Brittanee Korb (center) with the Bio-Energy Center’s lab staff(left to right); Jessica Sorensen, Megan McKay, Taylor Lyon and Tom Hlavacek.
Havre High School Students visit the Center
January 22, 2010
The Bio-Energy Center hosted Havre High School’s Automotive Tech Class taught by Merle Hoerner. Center staff Jon Soriano delivered a pre-lab discussion Tuesday at the high schoo,l followed by two class periods of hands-on experiments at the Center on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Center staff trained the senior students how to prepare biodiesel on a lab scale. Staff also provided the students a tour of Center’s facilities and an opportunity to see biodiesel being produced at the Biodiesel Pilot Plant housed in the old auto-diagnostic building. The students will be back next week to test the biodiesel that they made.
The Havre Daily News has a short article about this event, available here.
Bio-Energy Center on KFBB
January 20, 2010
The Bio-Energy Center was featured in a segment on KFBB, Channel 5 news last night. You can read and watch the piece at KFBB's website, right here!
NCM Transit runs on biodiesel
January 18, 2010
North Central Montana Transit officially began running its small bus fleet on a b5 fuel blend (95% standard diesel, 5% biodiesel), using biodiesel donated by the Bio-Energy Center. The biodiesel was produced in the Bio-Energy Center's pilot plant, from camelina seed grown in Montana, and cleaned and pressed by Peaks & Prairies of Malta, MT. You can read more about this partnership in an article from the Great Falls Tribune, available here.
Jim Lyons, director of NCM Transit (left), and Chancellor Frank Trocki of MSU-Northern (right)
WIRED Wrap-up Party
December 17, 2009
Attendees mingle before the WIRED Wrap-up dinner.
These lamps are burning 100% pure bio-diesel, made right here in our new processing plant!
"The ABCs of Biodiesel" goes to Missoula
November 9, 2009
The Bio-Energy Center recently took it's introductory biodiesel workshop to the University of Montana College of Technology.
UM Students learn how to create biodiesel on a laboratory scale on November 3rd, during the "ABCs of Biodiesel" workshop.
Video produced by UM News. You can view the original post here.