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- - 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.
- - Photos and video: Girls from Africa, Middle East come to coding camp at Virginia Tech
    Twenty-eight teenage girls from seven countries in North Africa and the Middle East visited Virginia Tech to participate in a coding camp for part of a three-week exchange program called TechGirls.
- - Photos and video: Instrument Maker Camp
- - Photos and video: Imagination Camp
- - 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.
- - Game on: Students gain programming skills while learning to read
    Michael Hsiao, a professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has just filed a patent for his platform, GameChangineer, which piggybacks on the allure of video game design to introduce programming concepts and reinforce English language lessons for students of all ages.
- - Virginia Cyber Range names Amazon Web Services as preferred partner
    AWS will join the Commonwealth of Virginia and Virginia Tech to support scalable cloud infrastructure and collaborate on cybersecurity educational efforts, enabling the Cyber Range with both content and a closed network for hands-on exercises, competitions, and other simulations.
- - College of Science hosting fifth annual NanoCamp for high schoolers
    The camp will be held Aug. 2-5 in Blacksburg. High school students from across the country will have a chance to join faculty in experimental research and discovery.
- - Documentary, panel discussion about women and minorities in STEM and computing set for Feb. 7
    Virginia Tech is hosting a public screening of “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap,” on Feb. 7. CODE is a documentary that explores the history of women and minorities in the field of computer science and discusses the benefits, challenges, and struggles of underrepresented groups in the STEM fields.
- - Aras Memisyazici appointed network architect for the Virginia Cyber Range
    In his new position, Memisyazici will define needs and develop technical strategy for the Virginia Cyber Range, a newly formed virtual center aimed at creating a state-of-the-art platform for cybersecurity education in Virginia.
- - Virginia Cyber Range to enhance cybersecurity education across the commonwealth
    The initiative will provide advanced cybersecurity training exercises for high school and college students, positioning Virginia to become a leading source of critical cybersecurity expertise for the nation.
- - Department of Mathematics’ Serkan Gugercin named A.V. Morris Professor
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2003, Gugercin is a leading researcher in the field of model reduction.
- - Photos: Thinkabit Lab opening in National Capital Region
    The Thinkabit Lab experience offers both teachers and students an engaging learning environment — part lab, makerspace, and classroom — to foster creativity, collaboration, and the critical skills necessary for the 21st century.

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