Virginia Tech Archives - Virginia Space Grant Consortium

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.

VSGC Scholarships and Fellowships, 2019-2020

by Kristyn DamadeoCommunity College, Earth Science, Fellowships, Graduate, ODU, Research, Scholarships, STEM, Undergraduate, Virginia Tech November 12, 2019November 12, 2019No Comments

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

by Kristyn DamadeoCubeSats, ODU, Satellites, University of Virginia, VCU, Virginia Tech, Wallops July 3, 2019July 3, 2019No Comments

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

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.

Virginia Tech Remote Sensing and GIS Symposium

by Kristyn DamadeoGIS, Graduate, Remote Sensing, Research, Undergraduate, Virginia Tech May 14, 2019May 15, 2019No Comments

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

by Kristyn DamadeoAerospace, CubeSats, Engineering, NASA, ODU, Satellites, STEM, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wallops April 18, 2019April 25, 2019No Comments

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.

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.

Virginia CubeSat Constellation

by Kristyn DamadeoCubeSats, Engineering, NASA, ODU, Satellites, STEM, Technology, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wallops February 27, 2019February 27, 2019No Comments

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

by Kristyn DamadeoFellowships, Graduate, Higher Education, STEM, Virginia Tech December 12, 2018January 10, 2019No Comments

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)

by Kristyn DamadeoK-12 Education, ODU, STEM, STEM Education, Technology, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech November 19, 2018February 8, 2019No Comments

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.