Black Engineering Excellence summer experience

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campus experience 1:45 Black Engineering Excellence summer experience

By:

Clark Dehart

1 Aug 2024 335

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.

So BEE VT is the Black Engineering Excellence Program at Virginia Tech, hosted by the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity at Virginia Tech. It is a two weeks residential summer camp program here. The program is designed to attract African American and Black students to Virginia Tech and to actually provide them with resources. And they're also involved in several activities during this period. And they ask them questions about their field. So then it serves as an impetus for them to learn about all these engineering programs and what it takes to, you know, be a Virginia Tech student. And one of them is going to be a design engineering design project, which is having to for them to create a unique and a complex system using simple machines, which is typically called the Rube Goldberg device. And at the end of the day, they will need to present these products or the process they went through to our judges. And we also collaborate with the Bloomberg company. One of the things that we hope to achieve by the end of the day is to make sure we have a successful program. That students are happy, that they learn a lot about engineering and that they would want to come to Virginia Tech and then pursue engineering here because definitely retention is important. Black retention in engineering is important, and that is what CEED actually stands for.

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