Our guides Greg and Josh made sure that we had the opportunity to see many varying aspects of Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech unfortunately sprung to Worldwide prominence on 16 April 2007 when 32 students and faculty where gunned down on the campus. There is much more to Virginia Tech that makes it a university of National and International importance and acclaim!
Highlights of our tour round Virginia Tech's campus included 'playing' with computer equipment in the CAVE. A computer aided facility using Virtual Reality that allows one to interact (or be emmersed) in another world or with an object. Although Norah didn't particularly enjoy being chased by a giant spider...
The 66 000 seater football stadium impressed us! And we were allowed into the president's suite (but just for a look-see)! The university has about 27 000 students and yet it routinely sells out the stadium!
Another fascinating visit involved walking inside a hollow bridge that is part of a 'Smart Road'. A road specifically constructed to conduct research upon. The road has varying types of surfaces and can replicate weather be it, rain, snow or fog.
In addition we also got to see the School of Veterinarian Medicine, visit the Centre for BioInformatics as well as have lunch in the adjoining Skelton Conference centre! The amount of research that is carried out in some many varying fields left us all feeling a little ignorant! Anyone want to sponsor a team member to study a Masters at Virginia Tech-applications are now open!
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The blog continues to be excellent - well done! :-)
ReplyDeleteOur GSE team was in the US at the time of the VT shootings and it was in the headlines and on the news for days afterwards. Also met stacks of people who had ties to VT - it was great to see how the community came together in those tragic times...
Looking forward to more posts! :-)