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- - Bhuvana Srinivasan earns NSF CAREER award to study plasma physics in exploding stars
    A better understanding of plasma transport, or the exchange of mass, momentum, and energy, can impact a variety of areas in science and engineering. The importance of Srinivasan’s research extends beyond astrophysics to terrestrial applications of plasmas, such as nuclear fusion, which has the potential to provide an abundance of clean energy.
- - More than 200 high school students to participate in Virginia Tech-hosted 2019 Science Olympiad
    The event is part of the national Science Olympiad, a series of science competitions held in all 50 states designed to help youth improve their understanding in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and to work together in teams to learn new skills.
- - Alumnus helps kids explore freshwater streams and rivers by getting their feet wet
    Craig Roghair helped jump-start the USDA Forest Service’s freshwater snorkeling program for students from fourth grade through high school.
- - Arianna Krinos wins Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award for second consecutive year
    Krinos, a senior with triple majors, will be presented with the scholarship on Thursday by former NASA astronaut Michael J. McCully, who will then give a guest lecture that is open to the public.
- - Virginia Tech Science Festival returns Oct. 27
    Now in its fifth year, the festival returns to campus Saturday, Oct. 27, with 93 interactive booths and activities that showcase dozens of science education and research programs throughout the university.
- - Virginia Tech partners in developing a nationally recognized high school engineering course
    Virginia Tech is partnering with other universities on a National Science Foundation $4 million grant to pilot a new program to create a new advanced high school course in engineering principles and design and to develop an innovative training program to prepare teachers.
- - Inaugural Virginia Cybersecurity Education Conference brings together educators
    The conference theme, Innovative Teaching and Learning in Cybersecurity, got attendees thinking about ways to engage students at all grade levels in hands-on, meaningful educational activities related to cybersecurity.
- - Photos: Girls Day 2018
    On June 19, girls from several middle schools in Montgomery County, Roanoke City, Floyd County, and others got the opportunity to learn about various career paths available through the Division of Operations at Virginia Tech.
- - Photos and video: Virginia Tech hosts pre-college program for JROTC students
    JROTC STEM Leadership Academy is a weeklong residential camp for high school students who have previously participated in the Army 4th Brigade JROTC program in their high school. Participants take part in hands-on activities, lab tours, and complete a design project, culminating in a showcase on the last day.
- - Virginia Tech team one of eight to compete in international autonomous vehicle competition
    Fifteen Virginia Tech faculty, undergraduates, and graduate engineering students will travel to Yuma, Arizona, with an autonomous vehicle they built for the first-ever AutoDrive Challenge Competition.
- - Virginia Tech engineers host local students for hands-on National Biomechanics Day event
    More than 80 students from Auburn, Floyd, Giles, and Radford high schools were invited to campus on April 11 for hands-on biomechanics demonstrations in five different labs throughout the College of Engineering.
- - Programming computer science graduates begins with educators
    Companies around the world are clamoring for professionals well versed in computer science. Which raises the question, if industry is starving for tech graduates, who is teaching them?
- - Photos and video: Principal, teacher inspired by Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab create their own
    Cedar Point Elementary School is one of the first schools in Virginia to get its own version of the Thinkabit Lab. More and more labs like Cedar Point’s have popped up all over the Mid-Atlantic, with plans of opening as far as New York.
- - Fourth Virginia Tech Science Festival returns Nov. 4 with educational offerings into evening
    The Virginia Tech Science Festival returns to campus with free events and activities to showcase unique ways science is the center of dozens of topics, from history and economics to geology and stars, medicine and chemistry.
- - Virginia Tech crowdfunding campaign encourages female students to choose engineering
    The Women’s Preview Weekend works to attract women to Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, but also provides mentoring for young women interested in pursuing an education and career in engineering, before they begin their freshman year. There is no cost to the women who participate, but that is why the program needs support.
- - More than 4,000 in National Capital Region inspired to invent at the Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab
    Celebrating its one-year anniversary this month, the center offers both teachers and students an engaging learning environment — part lab, makerspace, and classroom — to foster creativity, collaboration, and the critical skills necessary for an increasingly global, technology-driven workforce.
- - Mathematics' Julianne Chung to use NSF CAREER grant to help scientists obtain real-time solutions
    Chung, an assistant professor of mathematics is using a five-year, $400,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to advance mathematical theory and create new tools to cut the costs and time scientists spend in research.
- - Summer program immerses local teachers in interdisciplinary water research
    The Research Experiences for Teachers program gave STEM teachers a crash course in university research. They'll weave what they learned into their own curricula to enrich their students’ experiences and spark interest in science.
- - Virginia Tech leads $5 million effort to increase transfer student success through scholarships and support
    The program, known as the Virginia Tech Network for Engineering Transfer Students, will support scholarships through 2022 for low-income students in community colleges prior to and following transfer to Virginia Tech to pursue a career in the engineering field. The total number of scholarships awarded across all three institutions is 336 over five years.
- - Music, video games, and 3-D printing introduce high schoolers to STEM at summer workshop
    Education and Outreach Specialist Shernita Lee was among the Virginia Tech volunteers coordinating hands-on activities for the fifth annual STEM Summer Workshop.

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