The Dream of Rapid. This is the history about the 800 Norwegian students, that between 1950 and 2018, traveled to South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) in Rapid City - to pursue further education. Most of them returned to Norway after graduation, but some established themselves in America. It all started around 1950. The President at the Bergen Technical School, Jacob. B. Eide, wanted to expand the availability of higher education alternatives for students in his hometown. Furthermore, Norway had an immense need for engineers after World War II. The door was opened, so to speak, by the Norwegian-American Ingeborg Udager, who facilitated the initial contact between Mr. Eide and SDSM&T. The response was positive. One of the contributors, Terje Albrechtsen, put it this way: .In the 1960s, usually in the summer time, I often noticed pictures in the Bergens Tidende newspaper of Norwegians that had received their education at SDSM&T. The pictures were of a group posing in dark
