BRVGS students pose with Dr. James Groves (left) of UVa's School of EngineeringJust before the holiday break, a group of 13 BRVGS students from Orange, Louisa, Madison and William Monroe High Schools, along with students from several other area schools, completed a 3-credit "Explorations in Engineering" course through the University of Virgina by demonstrating "design and build" projects in Rice Hall at UVa. The course provided students an in-depth look at different engineering disciplines and introduced them to process problem-solving.
The final project for the class requires teams of students to identify and solve a problem with an engineering solution. Products for this class ranged from better sports cameras to help with officiating to more efficient turbocharging for engines. In their presentations, students consistently reported the problem-solving skills as one of the most important things that they learned in the course. Congratulations to these students for their hard work in the class!