STEM Workshops for 6th Grade Girls
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The Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center hosts the annual STEM workshops for over 700 sixth-grade girls and their teachers from the counties of Washington, Smyth and Russell, and the City of Bristol. The purpose of the STEM workshops is to introduce sixth-graders to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through hands-on workshops led by female chemists, engineers, doctors, programmers, and other professionals from regional industries and colleges. These professionals emphasize the link between their education and the important jobs they perform today. They encourage the students to enroll in core STEM classes while they are in middle and high school.
The STEM workshops are a partnership between the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, CGI, Eastman Chemical Company, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Inc., Thompson & Litton, Food City, and other regional firms. Joining them are faculty from partnering academic institutions, including Emory & Henry College, Radford University, the University of Virginia, VCU’s Department of Nurse Anesthesia, Virginia Highlands Community College, and Virginia Tech.
STEM 2020 Virtual Event
Welcome from the Executive Director of the SW VA Higher Education Center, David Matlock
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Chromatography Tie-Dying General Dynamics Workshop PowerPoint
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