Student Outreach Program at Virginia Tech Carilion

This organization was started by VT grad and med students in Roanoke that are passionate about science outreach and advocacy. Our goal is to get engaged with our local community by exposing science that is happening at VT and also to provide professional development opportunities to benefit students. Over the past several years, we have organized and hosted several events such as science talks at local coffee shops, science booths at local schools, STEM Q&A sessions at local community colleges, and starting a science-based podcast "Big Lick of Science".

We also strive to provide students with opportunities to meet industry and academic professionals to discuss their outreach/advocacy efforts.  We do this with the intention of developing meaningful connections that can then be brought to the Roanoke community and used in outreach/advocacy.