New River Conservancy was happy to participate in the Virginia Tech Science Festival on Saturday, November 2 to teach kids of all ages about stream analysis, water quality, how to protect our watershed, and how to teach others to do the same. The goal was to inspire our youth to take a more personal interest in the health of the creeks, streams, and rivers that surround them in the New River Watershed and inspire them to become Citizen Scientists, people who collect info that helps scientists do research.
The Virginia Tech Science Festival is a Saturday celebration of science as a way of knowing. It started in 2014 with the intention of inspiring the audience by seeing what happens at Virginia Tech and sharing it with the community.
Based on the idea that “science is bigger than you think,” the festival features various disciplines that use data to come to conclusions. Science is … life, process, safety, robotics, the earth, and well-being. Science is on the road and in the arts.
