Tag: pyrotechnics

Fireworks 101: Behind the scenes of a pyrotechnics class

Posted by on June 27, 2018

Five hours before kickoff of a Missouri S&T Miners football game last September, Leanna Lincoln and her dozen S&T classmates are wiping sweat from their brows. The sun beats down on an empty practice field just beyond the south end zone as Lincoln listens to S&T explosives engineering instructor Jerry Vaill.

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Hear Christmas songs and fireworks at Missouri S&T’s orchestra concert

Posted by on November 23, 2015

How can an orchestra concert featuring music from the Nutcracker Suite and Trans-Siberian Orchestra get any better? Missouri University of Science and Technology’s University and Community Symphony Orchestra would answer by adding fireworks to the performance.

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UMR lights up the skies with pyrotechnics course

Posted by on November 18, 2004

In the nation’s only pyrotechnics course offered for college credit, University of Missouri-Rolla students are lighting up the skies with fireworks displays at football games and other public events throughout Missouri.

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