Designing With Purpose: Inside FRCC’s Fall 2025 Engineering Design Expo

Students worked together to design and build assistive technology devices. Teams spent 10 weeks creating solutions inspired by people in the real world.

Students worked together to design and build assistive technology devices. Teams spent 10 weeks creating solutions inspired by people in the real world.

On an April morning at Front Range Community College’s Larimer Campus, sirens blared, and helicopters hovered overhead—not for a real emergency, but to provide Emergency Medical Services (EMS), nursing and law enforcement students with an immersive training experience.

This FRCC alum started nursing school but decided that wasn’t the right path. But she liked hands-on work… and discovered a fast track to her new career.