Join us for the STEAM Café this month! September’s STEAM talk, “Crazy Horse Memorial: The Science Behind 75 Years of Stone Carving”, will be presented by Dr. Caleb Ziolkowski, chief mountain officer at the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation.

Mountain carving draws on a variety of disciplines, often in surprising ways. Crazy Horse Memorial, the world's largest carving, has seen a wide variety of methods and approaches since its inception 75 years ago. Dr. Caleb Ziolkowski, who currently heads the project as chief mountain officer, will offer a high-level account of how the approach to carving has changed over the years, with emphasis on how current efforts involve technology, engineering, mathematics, and — in the broadest sense — science to produce art on a grand scale.