Practice makes perfect

Elyse Carter is trombone section leader for the Missouri S&T Marching Band. Photo by B.A. Rupert

Elyse Carter is the trombone section leader for the Missouri S&T Marching Band. Photo by B.A. Rupert

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It’s not a football field. It’s a marching field that the band lets the football team use sometimes.”

That is the perspective of Elyse Carter, trombone section leader for the Missouri S&T Marching Band.

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Engineering … with a twist

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Wesley Hackett could be considered a sort of Rubik’s Cube connoisseur. Photo by B.A. Rupert


Wesley Hackett knows a good problem when he sees it. And he loves problems. Perhaps that explains why he’s a huge fan of the Rubik’s Cube, the iconic 3-D puzzle from the 1980s. In fact, he has at least five different models of the twisting object, from the simple 2×2 Mini Cube to a V-Cube 7 that has more than 200 pieces.

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