This summer, school students in grades K-12 from across West Virginia may discover their passions in STEM at West Virginia University by attending one of the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources Engineering Challenge Camps.
West Virginia University, along with the NASA Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility and the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, is holding a robotics competition for middle school girls as part of the Competition of VEX Educational Robotics to Advance Girls Education.
To showcase a new experiential and educational hub for future West Virginia University graduates who will help drive the state’s economy, WVU will open the doors of Reynolds Hall to state lawmakers visiting Morgantown during May legislative interim meetings.
West Virginia University Army ROTC Mountaineer Battalion Annual Spring Commissioning Ceremony will take place Friday, May 13, at 7 p.m., in the WVU Mountainlair Ballroom, 1550 University Ave., Morgantown.
The sixth Remake Learning Days festival hosted by the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative will take place in communities across West Virginia May 12-23.
West Virginia University’s Commencement Weekend returns to the Morgantown campus in full force after two years of pandemic-restructured ceremonies with 16 ceremonies over three days Friday through Sunday, May 13-15 with as many as 4,500 spring graduates, President Gordon Gee, Provost Maryanne Reed, Chancellor Clay Marsh and other University officials, as well as honorary degree recipients including Stavros Lambrinidis, Ambassador of the European Union to the U.S.
West Virginia University Extension Ultimate Outdoor Adventure Camp, a three-day outdoor adventure camp for state youths ages 12-18 that includes kayaking, survival skills, hiking, shooting sports, ATV training, fly fishing and much more will be held Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1, at WVU Jackson’s Mill. Mountaineer Mascot Mary Roush, alternate Gunnar Webb and former Mountaineer Mascot Colson Glover will attend.
WVU students will present several show-and-tell demonstrations from competition teams including: the WVU Formula SAE racecar competition team, the WVU Experimental Rocketry team, the WVU EcoCAR Mobility Challenge team, the WVU University Rover Challenge team, the WVU AIAA Design, Build, Fly team, and Spacecraft Design student participating in the NASA RASC-AL competition. The event will be held April 26-28 in the Engineering Sciences Building.
The fourth Focus Forward symposium, hosted by the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative and the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, will be held Wednesday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Platinum Ballroom, Salons A-E, Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place, 2 Waterfront Place, Morgantown. Keynote speakers include Brian Anderson, Executive Director of the Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization, and Gayle Manchin, Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Bridging Innovation Week, hosted by the West Virginia University John Chambers College of Business and Economics and Marshall University Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation, will take place at the Charleston Civic Center this week with open events Tuesday and Wednesday.