Category: Virginia Tech
VSGC Summer Programs: A New Digital Frontier
The Virginia Space Grant Consortium is now offering an online alternative to our summer programs.
VSGC Scholarships and Fellowships, 2019-2020
Interested in research topics that win STEM scholarships? The 2019-2020 VSGC Scholarship and Fellowship awardees and research titles have been posted to the website. There were seventy-four awardees; 33 graduate, 11 undergraduate, 25 STEM Bridge and five community college students.
Virginia CubeSat Constellation Deployment
Three Virginia university satellites were deployed into nearly simultaneous orbit from the International Space Station at 10.50 a.m. EDT this morning.
BLAST at Virginia Tech
At the Virginia Tech session of BLAST (Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology), eighth and ninth graders learned about groundwater hydrology, volcanic hazards, physics, civil and environmental engineering, biomechanics and coding.
Virginia Tech Remote Sensing and GIS Symposium
The 2019 Virginia Tech Office of GIS and Remote Sensing Symposium received 35 posters, representing both undergraduate and graduate categories. Virginia Space Grant Consortium sponsors the cash prizes for the winning posters every year.
Virginia CubeSat Constellation Launch
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The Antares NG-11 rocket launched successfully Wednesday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Va. sending the Cygnus cargo spacecraft on its way to the ISS.
VSGC Innovative Projects 2019
VSGC supports a number of Innovative Projects every year for both K-12 and Higher Education projects. This year, 12 awards were made totaling over $80,000.
Virginia CubeSat Constellation
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A giant leap towards space for Virginia university students took place on February 26 when students from three Virginia universities delivered their small satellites to NanoRacks in Houston.
VSGC Fellowship recipient at the American Geophysical Union
VSGC Fellowship awardee and Virginia Tech graduate student, Magdalina Moses, presents her research at the American Geophysical Union.
BLAST Application Opens for 2019 (8th and 9th Graders)
BLAST will offer dynamic three-day residential summer experiences on the campuses of Old Dominion University, Virginia Tech and University of Virginia in the summer of 2019.