2019 Virginia Tech Science Festival Nutshell Games
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Date: Saturday, November 16, 2019
Time: 4:30 - 5:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
The Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech presents the 4th Annual Nutshell Games as part of the Virginia Tech Science Festival at the Moss Arts Center on Saturday, November 16, 2019.

Where can you learn about 30 research projects in 45 minutes?

The Nutshell Games is a contest in which selected Virginia Tech graduate students compete for cash prizes as they are given 90 seconds to present their research. Three winners, determined by a panel of judges to have been the most engaging and to have communicated their research the most clearly, will each receive a $500.00 prize. The winner is the person who can most clearly explain their work in an entertaining manner, as determined by a panel of judges.

Nutshell Games presenters this year include graduate students from a wide variety of research fields, including human development, biomedical engineering, plant and environmental sciences, industrial and systems engineering, geosciences, biology, electrical engineering, psychology, nutrition, food science and technology, and many more.

With an emphasis on communicating to non-scientists, the Nutshell Games will be judged this year by a panel of eight people from both on and off campus.

While the judges convene to determine the three winners, Miss Virginia 2019 and Virginia Tech dual degree graduate (systems biology in the College of Science and biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) Camille Schrier will perform a chemistry demonstration onstage. Schrier performed the talent portion of the Miss Virginia competition in a lab coat, goggles, and rubber gloves, using a hydrogen peroxide reaction to shoot colorful foams into the air.

Admission is free and the event is open to the public.

The main festival is from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. For more information on the main festival, visit: http://www.nextthreedays.com/FeaturedEventDetails.cfm?E=529556.

Parking will be free at Virginia Tech's North End Center parking deck and other campus locations.

For more information, visit: https://communicatingscience.isce.vt.edu/Announcements.html or http://www.cpe.vt.edu/sciencefestival/index.html or https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2019/11/science-virginia_tech_science_festival_2019.html or https://www.facebook.com/VTSciFest/.