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MathScience Innovation Center

Summer programs at MSiC create lasting memories.Two different programs offer area youth a chance to keep their math and science thinking caps on.

Boring summers are a thing of the past at the MathScience Innovation Center with Camp Innovation and the Summer Regional Governor's School.

Camp Innovation, which served over 1,000 students in 2011, is open to all rising 4th through 9th graders and offers 34 different programs through out the summer. Registration for Camp Innovation is ongoing through June 15. Registration for the Summer Regional Governor’s School was done earlier in the year through participating schools.

Haitian child Nanotechnology lesson goes global

Nano-Solutions to Water Pollution, a lesson developed for Grade 6 as part of the nanoscience and nanotechnology initiative at the MSiC, helped to spotlight a solution for purifying water for the villagers of Dos Palais, Haiti.

MSiC teleconferencingVirtual classrooms connect Radford to Richmond

Virtual lesson classrooms at the MSiC have allowed expansion of Radford University's Master of Science in Mathematics Education program to expand into the central Virginia region.

Metro Richmond Science Fair 2012Metro Richmond Science Fair complete results

The Metro Richmond Science Fair is pleased to announce the 2012 competition winners, as well as special award winners in various categories. A special thanks goes out to all who have helped make this year's event one to remember.

Please click the link below to view the full list.

Dr. Venita WatsonMSiC alumnus awarded fellowship for treatment research

Alumnus Dr. Venita Watson now uses the creative thinking that is encouraged in MSiC classrooms on a daily basis as she works in the pharmaceutical discovery process.

Carrie PersingMath creates universal language

With just iPod applications as their translators, MSiC teacher Carrie Persing and eight of her Korean counterparts explored how to integrate math with other subjects in three days at the College of William and Mary's Center for Gifted Education.

www.ImagineNano.infoMathScience Innovation Center rolls out big ideas on tiny matter

As humans, we are naturally drawn to learning about the things we can see - the computers on our desks and the telephones that we use every day for example. But a growing contingency in the science community is interested in something even smaller. What holds together the particles that make up that computer? What causes the wires inside the telephone to send a signal? These questions are part of the nanoscience and nanotechnology fields, and educators at the MathScience Innovation Center have spent years travelling far and wide to learn about these ideas and to develop curriculum based on the knowledge that is being discovered. On Thursday, Dec. 8, they placed some big ideas on very tiny matter in front of educational leaders from around the area.

Students from Mrs. Janie Brown's class at Liberty Middle School in Hanover County gather data from the Shock-O-Meter during a recent Movers and Shakers lesson.Invention brings shock absorption to life

Hands-on experimentation is the pinnacle of learning, but sometimes the devices we dream of using just aren't available. So what is a teacher to do? Invent the device, of course! Grade 6-12 Science teacher Jim Lehman explains the device he created to teach the Movers and Shakers lesson.