Morgan State STEM Expo - Saturday October 29, 9am - 2pm

 

Upcoming STEM and Dyslexia Events from the Dyslexic Edge

 Fall 2022 events from the Dyslexic Edge, emphasizing STEM academic and career pathways. Read more at www.thedyslexicedge.org.

VT's Alexandria Innovation Campus announces K-12 STEM events for Fall 2022

 See more at https://www.vt.edu/innovationcampus/k12programs.html. 

K-12 STEM AND COMPUTING EVENTS FOR 2022-23

The Virginia Tech Innovation Campus has an exciting line-up of events scheduled for 2022-23 aimed at supporting STEM education and computing in the D.C. Area. 

Use our registration form to volunteer or support any of the events as an individual, a business or a community organization!

Fall 2022

• Oct. 20, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
  
• STEMposium Parent Night at George Mason Elementary School 
  
• Oct. 29, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
  Virginia Tech K-12 STEM and College Fair at Nannie J. Lee Memorial Recreation Center
  
• Nov. 10, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
  STEMposium Parent Night at Jefferson Houston PreK–8 IB School

Spring 2023

• Feb. 23, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
  STEMposium Parent Night at Samuel Tucker Elementary School
• March 6-9, 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm
  Virginia Tech STEM Acceleration and Enrichment Program
• April 20, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
  STEMposium Parent Night at James K. Polk Elementary School

Summer 2023

• Drone Summer Program
• Quantum Computing for Girls
  VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION

  For additional information on Innovation Campus K-12 prorgams, contact Dr. Pamela O. Gilchrist (pamelag@vt.edu) Director, K-12 Education.

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Fairfax County Youth Leadership Network's META LEADERSHIP Conference November 11-12

 

Leadership Fairfax and Fairfax County Government announce the Youth Leadership Network's META LEADERSHIP Conference      The future is out there, and the youth will lead it! Join us for the Youth Leadership Network Annual Conference – Leadership in the Metaverse – hosted at Virginia Tech Falls Church Campus. Featuring training sessions and experiences for ages 12 to 22 who are interested in improving their leadership skills, building stronger communities and creating a more equitable future. The event also includes a training path for mentors and teachers who work with youth to develop their leadership skills and plan for ways to support the growth of their charges. Collaborators have the opportunity to sponsor an experience, facilitate training sessions and engage in various ways to help support the development of the leaders of the future. Learn how you can collaborate and support this year's conference.   Check Out Meta Leadership

Another win for Chesterfield, Virginia - World's Largest Vertical Farm

Plenty to build 'world's largest indoor vertical farming campus' in Richmond area

Sep. 14th, 2022

Plenty Unlimited Inc., a Bay Area indoor agriculture company, said Wednesday it will build a $300 million vertical farming campus in Chesterfield County’s Meadowville Technology Park.

The office of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin billed the project as “the world’s largest indoor vertical farming campus.”

Plenty said it will complete its 120-acre Richmond Farm Campus in phases over the next six years, ultimately creating more than 300 full-time jobs. Its first farm on the site, a dedicated Driscoll’s berry farm to be completed by early 2024, will be the first to grow indoor, vertically farmed strawberries at scale, according to the governor’s announcement. Plenty also indicated it plans to grow leafy greens and tomatoes at its new campus.

Arama Kukutai, CEO of Plenty, said in a statement the “scale and sophistication” of the planned facility will make it possible “to economically grow a variety of produce with superior quality and flavor.”

In January, Plenty announced a $400 million Series E round led by One Madison Group and JS Capital Management, both of New York, as well as

Washington Post: College Major Regrets

 

washingtonpost.com

The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors

By Andrew Van Dam|Sep. 2nd, 2022

Nearly 2 in 5 American college graduates have major regrets.

That is, they regret their major.

The regretters include a healthy population of liberal arts majors, who may be responding to pervasive social cues. When he delivered his 2011 State of the Union address in the shadow of the Great Recession, former president Barack Obama plugged math and science education and called on Americans to “out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world.” Since then, the number of new graduates in the arts and humanities has plunged.

Meanwhile, nearly half of humanities and arts majors have studier’s remorse as of 2021. Engineering majors have the fewest regrets: Just 24 percent wish they’d chosen something different, according to a Federal Reserve survey.

As a rule, those who studied STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — are much more likely to believe they made the right choice, while those in social sciences or vocational courses second-guess themselves.  

There doesn’t seem to be much relationship between loans, gender, race or school selectivity and your regrets. Though, as you may have guessed, our analysis of Fed data shows that the higher your income is today, the less you regret the major you chose back in college.

READ MORE (including interactive graphs of majors and salaries)