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    Launching Off at Virginia Tech Drone Camp , video

    This year, in Virginia Tech's Imagination 3 Drone Camp, a STEM camp that provides engineering for kids, K-12 students built their own drones and model rockets to launch at the end of the week. The camp, hosted by the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED), equipped students with model rocket kits, along with drone building and flying, providing broader exposure to Aerospace Engineering.

    Date: Aug 29, 2024
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    Exploring engineering and campus life with C-Tech² , video

    C-Tech² offers an opportunity to learn about college life--from residence halls to classrooms and everything in-between, and gives students experience with broad range of engineering disciplines. The C-Tech² program is designed and intended for rising junior and senior high school girls.

    Date: Aug 01, 2024
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    Black Engineering Excellence summer experience , video

    The Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) hosts its annual summer camp for Black Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech (BEE VT). This two-week summer, residential, program offers an opportunity to explore engineering while also learning about college life at Virginia Tech.

    Date: Aug 01, 2024
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    Five days at 4-H camp have lifelong impact , article

    For many of the more than 15,000 kids who attend Virginia 4-H camp each year, the experience can be life-changing. Ninety percent of camp volunteers are former campers who want to pay it forward to help other kids have the best summer camp experience of their lives.

    Date: Jul 16, 2024
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    Deepening rural knowledge through academic experiences , video

    SEE VT (Summer Enrichment Experience at Virginia Tech) is a one-week residential summer camp on Virginia Tech’s campus for middle school students living in rural communities. The program is designed to meet the academic enrichment and social-emotional needs of learners by promoting a sense of rural belonging and introducing place-based humanities and STEM opportunities that emphasize a connection to home and community.

    Date: Jul 12, 2024
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    K-12 students build cameras from scratch at Virginia Tech's Imagination Camp , video

    This year at Virginia Tech's Imagination Camp, K-12 students learn to solder and create digital cameras from scratch. During the week-long camp, hosted by the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity, the students work together to assemble and troubleshoot until they have a finished, functional product to take home with them at the end of camp.

    Date: Jul 08, 2024
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    Former 4-H campers pay it forward , video

    Each summer, the Virginia Cooperative Extension 4-H Education Center at Smith Mountain Lake hosts hundreds of campers. Sixty percent of Martinsville and Henry County campers attend on scholarship. Ninety percent of camp volunteers are former campers who want to pay it forward to help these kids have the best summer camp experience of their lives.

    Date: Jun 18, 2024
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    Maker Camp combines innovation and imagination , video

    Maker Camp is a four-day camp hosted by University Libraries for students age 10-14. The mission of the camp is to get young students engaged in hands-on, creative collaboration. Campers receive hands-on experience and use library resources to build arcade games out of recyclable materials, 3-D printed material, and computer parts.

    Date: Aug 03, 2023
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    Summer camp spotlights Black excellence in engineering , video

    BEE VT (Black Engineering Excellence) is a summer camp for rising junior and senior high school students. The camp offers an opportunity to explore the many facets of engineering while learning about college life. During the two-week camp, staff from Bloomberg Industry Group visited with the students to provide feedback and advice on an engineering design project.

    Date: Aug 02, 2023
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    TechGirls exchange program bridges cultures through STEM , video

    TechGirls is an international summer exchange program designed to empower and inspire young women from around the world to pursue careers in science and technology. These young women participated in STEM activities, including a final project that focuses on developing technology to benefit in their communities. The TechGirls program is offered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, and Legacy International in partnership with Virginia Tech. Learn more at https://techgirlsglobal.org/

    Date: Aug 02, 2023
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    High schoolers catapult themselves into the world of data science , video

    Rising high school juniors and seniors experience what it's like to be a data scientist during a three-day Explore Data Science camp.

    Date: Jul 19, 2023
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    Buzzing about Hokie BugCamp , video

    Hokie BugCamp is an annual camp for ages 6-13 or anyone who just wants to get outside and learn more about nature. Children collect, identify, and learn how to pin their found specimens. As an alternative to insect collecting, campers can participate in an insect scavenger hunt within in the Heritage Park.

    Date: Jul 19, 2023
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    C-Tech² explores engineering and campus life at Virginia Tech , video

    The Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) offers this program to rising junior and senior high school girls. The two week camp focuses on hands-on learning activities to help guide budding engineers in their future college and professional career paths.

    Date: Jul 05, 2023
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    Annual kids camp explores STEM , video

    Kids' Tech University is an annual STEM program hosted by Fralin Life Sciences Institute. Virginia Tech researchers and students helped teach children about health, physical anatomy, and STEM technology through interactive sessions and hands-on activities.

    Date: Mar 23, 2023
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    Middle Schoolers tap into creativity at Maker Camp , video

    Maker Camp is a four-day camp hosted by University Libraries for students age 10-14. The mission of the camp is to get young students engaged in hands-on, creative collaboration. The campers were challenged with the task of building an arcade game from scrap materials like cardboard, pencils, bottle caps, etc., with the help of modern technology such as 3D printers, laser cutters, circuitry and more.

    Date: Aug 16, 2022
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    Summer camp takes to the sky with drones , video

    Virginia Tech and Wing Aviation welcomes middle school students to participate in Imagination Drone Camp 2022. Campers gain experience in flying different types of drones, building their own drone, and a flying competition. Imagination is a camp hosted by a partnership between College of Engineering, the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED), Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS), Wing, and Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP).

    Date: Jul 27, 2022
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    Virginia high schoolers BLAST into STEM education , video

    Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology (BLAST) is a three day camp that helps rising 9th and 10th graders find their place in various STEM fields. Each day of BLAST is packed with STEM-related activities and demonstrations led by faculty of the university. Students come away from BLAST with a greater sense of curiosity, deeper insight about the variety of careers that exist in STEM fields, and enhanced readiness for advanced programs in science, technology, engineering, and math. The BLAST program is a partnership between the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, Old Dominion University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

    Date: Jul 15, 2022
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    TechGirls from around the world converge on Blacksburg , video

    Teenage girls from around the world converged on Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus for this year's TechGirls technology camp. TechGirls is an international summer exchange program designed to empower and inspire young women from around the world to pursue careers in science and technology, offered in partnership with the U.S. Department of State and Legacy International.

    Date: Jul 13, 2022
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    Junior entomologists attend Hokie BugCamp , video

    Hokie BugCamp is an annual camp for ages 6-13 or anyone who just wants to get outside and learn more about nature. The Virginia Tech Department of Entomology in partnership with the Virginia 4-H, Virginia Cooperative Extension, and the New River Land Trust hosted three mini sessions of Hokie BugCamp which focused on insect collecting– the most popular component of the youth camp– in which kids collected, identified, and learned how to pin their found specimens. In addition to insect collecting, campers also participated in an insect scavenger hunt and an insect collection contest.

    Date: Jul 12, 2022

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