VINSE Outreach
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24 high schools from 15 Middle TN counties are participating in the VINSE Field Trip in Spring 2016
24 High Schools representing 15 Middle TN counties are participating in the Spring 2016 VINSE high school field trip program. Groups of up to 20 from each school will to visit our facilities, perform an experiment, utilize our electron microscope, and learn about nanotechnology and energy during a day visit. Read MoreMar. 11, 2016
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Five year, $20 million TN-SCORE program boots state’s energy research capacity
For the last five years, scientists and engineers at Vanderbilt University have been collaborating closely with colleagues at other public and private universities and research centers throughout Tennessee in an effort to increase the state’s energy research capacity. This collaboration was made possible by a five-year, $20 million… Read MoreJun. 30, 2015
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26 High Schools from 16 Middle TN counties are participating in the VINSE Field Trip in Spring 2015
26 High Schools representing 16 Middle TN counties are participating in the Spring 2015 VINSE high school field trip program. Groups of up to 20 from each school will to visit our facilities, perform an experiment, utilize our electron microscope, and learn about nanotechnology and energy during a day visit. Spring… Read MoreMar. 2, 2015
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SIGN-UP for VINSE High School Field Trip Program for Spring 2015
Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) is pleased to be able to invite groups of high school students, group size 20 or smaller, to visit our facilities, perform an experiment, utilize our electron microscope, and learn about nanotechnology and energy during a day visit. Our field trip program… Read MoreAug. 16, 2014
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VINSE High School Field Trip program Fall 2013 & Spring 2014
Small groups of students from across middle Tennessee high schools learned how to squeeze electricity from a blackberry. The students mashed blackberries, extracted their juice, soaked an electrode in the juice, coated another electrode with graphite and clipped them together to make a solar cell. After… Read MoreMay. 15, 2014
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VUCast Extra: Blackberries, electricity, and high school students
How do you get students excited about science? Try some blackberries, nanotechnology and solar cells mixed with Tennessee high school students at a Vanderbilt lab. Watch VUCast Extra now. … Read MoreOct. 13, 2013
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VINSE goes to Capitol Hill to discuss K-12 STEM outreach with members of the Tennessee delegation
It was an exciting day on Capitol Hill. Dr. Sandra Rosenthal, director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), Sarah Ross, program and outreach coordinator at VINSE, and Toshia Wrenn, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Vanderbilt had the opportunity to share with staff in the offices… Read MoreApr. 18, 2013
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Vanderbilt outreach initiative puts science in the hands of Tennessee students
Middle school students in Robertson and Dickson counties will get hands-on science instruction thanks to a Vanderbilt University outreach initiative. Science teachers for grades 6-8 at White House Heritage Elementary School and Coopertown Middle School in Robertson County were on the Vanderbilt campus Jan. 23 to pick up kits containing… Read MoreJan. 23, 2013
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High school students turn blackberries into solar cells
How can you squeeze electricity from a blackberry? A number of local high school students can answer this question from personal experience. They have actually made solar cells out of blackberry juice and measured the electrical power that they produce as part of an educational outreach program started this year… Read MoreMay. 21, 2012
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Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff share discoveries at USA Science & Engineering Festival
A group of Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff will share their research and passion for science and technology with middle and high school students at the nation’s largest science fair April 27-29 in Washington, D.C. The second annual USA Science & Engineering Festival and Book Fair, held… Read MoreApr. 25, 2012