Science Matters

Get outside and enjoy National Kids to Parks Day on May 21. Virginia State Parks will have activities that encourage kids to discover science, history, nature and adventure by exploring the outdoors.

Explore what it takes for James Madison University's first Rocketry Team to build a rocket and compete in the NASA Student Launch competition.

Emerge freshwater science program of which VCU is a participant, will be featured in the STEM for All video showcase, May 10-17, 2022.

While outside play may appear to be a routine day outdoors, it can easily turn into an opportunity to raise our next generation of environmentally aware kids. Environmental literacy can build academic and social skills, strengthen healthy minds and bodies, and create a generational exchange.

Students in Amherst County, Hopewell City, and Surry County Public Schools worked with the James River Association to produce public service announcements (PSAs) to stress the importance of caring for the James River.

Master organbuilders Robin Côté and Alex Ross combine science, physics, sound, and architecture as they finesse the sound of 1400 individual pipes in a one of a kind choir organ their company, Juget-Sinclair, recently installed in Richmond’s Sacred Heart Cathedral.

Henrico County Public School 6th graders learn filmmaking skills and share what they learned about their watershed as part of a NOAA B-WET grant which included many community partners.

Tips for viewing rocket launches at Wallops Island, Virginia.

Each year in February millions of people count the variety of birds that can be seen and heard in their own backyard. You are invited to participate in the bird count that takes place February 18-21, 2022.The Great Backyard Bird Count allows people from all over the world to come together and share their love of birds while celebrating and learning about migration patterns. These observations help scientists better understand global bird populations before one of their annual migrations.

Students in James Madison University’s Valley Scholars program built “solar suitcases,” to provide electricity to students in a refugee camp in Kenya.