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- - Miss Virginia 2019 Camille Schrier headlines this year’s Virginia Tech Science Festival and Nutshell Games
    The Virginia Tech Science Festival returns to campus for its sixth year on Nov. 16, with more than 100 free hands-on, minds-on learning interactive booths and activities that showcase dozens of science education and research programs throughout the university.
- - Virginia Tech leads efforts to prepare Virginia’s students for high-demand STEM jobs
    The work brings together a team of Virginia universities to lay the groundwork for a statewide education network that will provide STEM programming access to learners of all ages.
- - College of Science’s NanoCamp brings dozens of high school students to campus
    The Virginia Tech College of Science hosted its eighth annual NanoCamp recently, bringing 46 high school students to campus to learn about nanoscience and nanomedicine.
- - Virginia Cyber Range to host annual cybersecurity education conference
    The 2nd annual Virginia Cybersecurity Education Conference will take place Aug. 13-14 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
- - College of Science brings high school teachers to campus for nanoscience lessons, experiments
    The Virginia Tech College of Science recently hosted 16 high school science teachers for three days of in-depth lab experiments and demonstrations centered on bringing nanoscience into the classroom.
- - Virginia Cyber Range challenges hackers for good
    The Virginia Cyber Range contributed to the 2nd Annual AWS Hackathon for Good by sponsoring a challenge during the Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C.
- - Department of Mathematics to host lecture on experiences of African-American women and girls in education
    Guest speaker Nicole M. Joseph of Vanderbilt University will talk about the experiences of black women and girls in mathematics education.
- - 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.

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