Technology

Students design and build an underwater robot that can clean up the trash, deposit a tank of chemicals to balance pH levels and reintroduce native fish to the lake, all while avoiding getting tangled in the toxic algae that cover the lake bottom. (Nate Edwards/BYU Photo)

When BYU student Xander Dorius accepted a recruiting position at a small home health company, he didn’t realize he would also be responsible for front desk, filing and training duties. His help was needed in a much wider scope than just recruiting because he worked at a small local company.

Aurora co-founder Sterling Anderson speaks about the importance of being trustworthy. (Arianna Davidson)

BYU Mechanical Engineering Professor Larry Howell and students explain developable mechanisms and how they work. (BYU Photo)

Robots like this one from the BYU Robotics and Dynamics Lab are taking over the workplace. (Nate Edwards/BYU Photo)

Grant Thompson and his mother, Michele, look at an iPhone in the family's kitchen in Tucson, Ariz. Apple credited the Tucson teenager for discovering the FaceTime bug. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff)

Mechanical Engineering Faculty members Kevin Cole, left, and Nick Hawkins, right, work in the Prototyping Lab. (Ty Mullen)

Aubrey, left, and Katelyn Reidhead, right, are students participating in dual enrollment at Bingham High School in South Jordan. Both spend time at the high school and at home participating in BYU Independent Study courses. (Mindy Reidhead)

Fundación Paraguaya Founder Martin Burt explains the functionality of the app Poverty Stoplight to university students. The app helps individuals in poverty take a holistic view of their life and connects them with necessary resources. (Alisa Baker)

He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, center, speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. He made his first public comments about his claim to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2017 file photo, people walk by Google offices in New York. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is planning a major expansion in New York City. The newspaper reported Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, that the company plans to add space for more than 12,000 additional New York workers. The Journal cited anonymous people familiar with the plans. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Bill Gates, former Microsoft CEO and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, gestures to a jar of human feces as he speaks at the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing, Tuesday, Nov. 6. With a jar of human feces on a podium next to him, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has kicked off a 'Reinvented Toilet' Expo in China. Gates said Tuesday that the technologies on display at the three-day expo in Beijing represent the most significant advances in sanitation in nearly 200 years. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Choosing a major is a critical decision every BYU student must make. According to the BYU Undergraduate Catalog, students can choose from 181 different majors.

Jared Ward, an Olympic marathon runner at BYU adjunct statistics professor, uses The Meteor to help with muscle recovery. (Lexie Flickinger)

This Gutenberg Press replica stands as the only working one of its kind in the world. (Crandall Museum)

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, speaks about the new Apple iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and the iPhone XR at the Steve Jobs Theater during an event to announce new Apple products Wednesday, Sept. 12, in Cupertino, California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

From left: Joseph Woodbury, Colton Gardner and Preston Alder are co-founders of Neighbor, the peer-to-peer storage marketplace. Together they are changing the storage industry. (Neighbor)