K-12 Education Archives - Virginia Space Grant Consortium

Bringing Crewed Mission Planning to a New Digital Frontier

by Kristyn DamadeoAeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Higher Education, K-12 Education, NASA, NASA Langley, ODU, Research, Rocketry, STEM, STEM Education June 12, 2020June 12, 2020No Comments

Bringing Crewed Mission Planning to a New Digital Frontier

VSGC Summer Programs: A New Digital Frontier

by Kristyn DamadeoAeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Community College, Earth Science, Engineering, Higher Education, Internships, K-12 Education, NASA, NASA Langley, ODU, Research, Rocketry, Satellites, STEM, STEM Education, STEM Internships, Virginia Tech, Wallops June 8, 2020June 8, 2020No Comments

The Virginia Space Grant Consortium is now offering an online alternative to our summer programs.

Flight Academy

2020 Pathways Flight Academies

by Kristyn DamadeoK-12 Education, Pilots November 19, 2019November 19, 2019No Comments

Are you a high school student interested in becoming a commercial airline pilot? Five, twelve-day residential academies will be offered during the summer of 2020 for selected students who have shown an interest in and passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) and have career aspirations to become a commercial pilot.

VSGC Summer Programs

by Kristyn DamadeoAerospace, Earth Science, K-12 Education, NASA Langley, STEM, STEM Education, Wallops August 2, 2019November 19, 2019No Comments

Summers at the Virginia Space Grant Consortium are busy. Our high school programs, which offer an online component, are very popular and run throughout the summer. The videos above show a glimpse of the week-long summer academies for three of our high school programs; VASTS, VESSS and Virginia Space Coast Scholars.

BLAST at Virginia Tech

by Kristyn DamadeoK-12 Education, STEM, STEM Education, Virginia Tech June 21, 2019July 23, 2019No Comments

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.

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VSGC Programs

by Kristyn DamadeoAerospace, Airports, Community College, Drones, Engineering, Graduate, Higher Education, Internships, K-12 Education, NASA, Research, Scholarships, STEM, STEM Education, STEM Internships, Technology May 7, 2019May 7, 2019No Comments

Did you know that VSGC offers programs and scholarships for students and faculty from middle school all the way to graduate school? We also offer opportunities for educators. Download an interactive pdf here to learn more.

Imagination Summer Camps at Virginia Tech

VSGC Innovative Projects 2019

by Kristyn DamadeoEngineering, K-12 Education, STEM, STEM Education, Technology, Virginia Tech April 5, 2019April 25, 2019No Comments

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.

STEM Takes Professional Development Workshop

Faculty Professional Development Workshop

by Kristyn DamadeoCommunity College, Engineering, K-12 Education, NASA, STEM, STEM Education, Technology, Wallops March 25, 2019April 25, 2019No Comments

Nineteen Virginia community college faculty completed the STEM Takes Flight Professional Development workshop at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility.

Technology Exploration Saturdays

Technology Exploration Saturdays

by Kristyn DamadeoEngineering, K-12 Education, NASA, NASA Langley, STEM, STEM Education, Technology March 20, 2019March 25, 2019No Comments

The final Technology Exploration Saturday was held at NASA Langley this weekend. Peninsula middle school students and parents competed to design and build penny haulers and robotic arms.

VESSS awards

VESSS Wins Programs That Work Award

by Kristyn DamadeoEarth Science, K-12 Education, STEM, STEM Education January 10, 2019February 8, 2019No Comments

VESSS (Virginia Earth System Science Scholars) recently won a Programs That Work Award from the Virginia Mathematics and Science Coalition (VMSC).