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Video ItemMaker 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 -
Video ItemSummer 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 -
Video ItemTechGirls 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 -
Video ItemHigh 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 -
Video ItemBuzzing 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 -
Video ItemC-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 -
Video ItemAnnual 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 -
Video ItemMiddle 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 -
Video ItemSummer 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 -
Video ItemVirginia 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 -
Video ItemTechGirls 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 -
Video ItemJunior 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 -
Video ItemHokie BugCamp 2021 , video
Armed with nets and jars, kids of all ages explored Heritage Park in Blacksburg, Va to find and capture flying and crawling insects during Hokie BugCamp 2021. 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: Aug 26, 2021 -
Video ItemMiddle schoolers design, build arcade games as part of annual ICAT Maker Camp , video
Virginia Tech faculty and graduate students, as well as Maker Camp alumni welcomed middle school-aged students to a four-day camp designed to harness students’ creativity and encourage them to act on their curiosity. Maker Camp is a project of Virginia Tech's University Libraries and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology within the Virginia Tech Creativity + Innovation District.
Date: Aug 06, 2019 -
Video ItemVirginia Tech welcomes TechGirls for 12-day camp , video
TechGirls is an international exchange program designed to inspire and empower high school girls from the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia in STEM. The 60+ girls visited Virginia Tech to learn from faculty experts in coding, programming, and cybersecurity. They also visited local businesses for a job shadowing day. Their visit was facilitated by the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Tech. TechGirls is a program of the U.S. Department of State, administered by Legacy International.
Date: Jul 30, 2019 -
Video ItemKids learn about gardening, food prep at Family Food Fest camp , video
Family Food Fest is a partnership between Hahn Horticulture Garden at Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension through Virginia Tech and Virginia State University. The youth day camp featured various hands-on educational gardening activities and field trips to gardening enterprises.
Date: Jul 19, 2019 -
Video ItemCollege of Science hosts high school teachers for Nanoscience camp , video
The College of Science hosted 16 high school science teachers from across Virginia, Maryland, and Tennessee for three days of in-depth lab experiments and demonstration centered on bringing nanoscience into the classroom.
Date: Jun 26, 2019 -
Video ItemExploring wood science with InsideTREES , video
InsideTREES, a three-day educational summer program for high school students provided by the Department of Sustainable Biomaterials, was held June 10-12, 2019 on Virginia Tech's Blacksburg Campus. The camp gave high school students an opportunity to explore aspects of wood science, forestry, engineering, and design.
Date: Jun 19, 2019 -
Video ItemPublic health graduate students lead camp to teach children about health, well-being , video
Market Kids is a 13-week camp based in Christiansburg that teaches local kids (ages 6-13) the importance of health and well-being. The kids learned to plant vegetables, learned about nutrition, took field trips, and sold the vegetables they planted at two local farmers markets. The program was awarded the John E. Dooley Student Engagement Grant of $1,500. Market Kids is a partnership between the New River Health District and the Virginia Tech Public Health program.
Date: Aug 21, 2018 -
Video ItemTechGirls from Middle East, Africa visit Virginia Tech for coding camp , video
TechGirls is a is a program of the U.S. Department of State, administered by Legacy International in partnership with CEED. TechGirls brings high school girls from the Middle East and North Africa to the United States for a three-week exchange. While here, students take part in an interactive technology and computer camp, join a tech company for a day of job shadowing, and participate in community service initiatives. The TechGirls program improves the participants’ ability to enter tech fields and gain access to higher education, as well as offering them a rich cultural immersion experience. The CEED office provides programming for just part of the visit.
Date: Jul 26, 2018
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