BRVGS Seniors from all 7 counties will present their yearlong Senior Capstone Projects in a science fair format over 2 days, April 29th and 30th.
BRVGS World History students will be presenting their second semester group projects in April.
A Report from BRVGS Senior:
My trip to Tucker, Georgia to work on a Habitat for Humanity build was a really great experience that I am glad I was able to share with three other Madison BRVGS students and my advisor. The other students included Alex Park, Jenny Zhang, and Emily Aylor. We all enjoyed the build so much that we were disappointed that there were two rain days. In the three days we did work, the progress we made was significant.
-Sarah Catherine Coates
The 10th graders at WMHS visited four different Neuroscience Labs at UVA this past month. The four labs were Harris Labs, Bland labs, Beenhakker labs, and Fruit Fly Lab.
Harris Labs did ground breaking research this summer by discovering the Lymphatic Vessels that go into the brain.
Bland Labs is where new research is being done on the genetics of insulin signaling.
Beenhakker Labs is working with electrical brain signaling.
Fruit Fly Labs showed the students transformation to glowing larva.
It was AMAZING and eye opening for all who attended.
The following article was in the Greene County Recorder:
"More than 20 young ladies attended the Girls in Engineering program on March 25 hosted by William Monroe High School senior Annelise Wright.
“At the event I was teaching about engineering, because for my Blue Ridge Virtual Governors’ senior internship project we have a community service program and my whole topic was women in engineering,” Wright said." Click Here to Read More...
BRVGS is always looking for extra people wiling to help be Evaluators for our Senior Expos! Evaluators provide a great oppurtunity for our Seniors to explain thier year long projects in the context of a professional conversation. The Senior Expos are setup in a "science fair" format. Teams of 2 or 3 adult Evaluators will go around and speak to a pre-determined list of seniors about how they spent thier time during thier Senior Project. You do not need any experience to be an Evalutaor. We will team you up with someone that has done it before and give you specific directions and a scoring rubric.
This year there will be two Senior Expos -
Evalutors can attend one or both of our Expos!
If interested, please go to this form - BRVGS Evaluator Survey - and sign up!
BRVGS World History students visited Washington, DC last week to see memorials to World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Holocaust. Students took pictures and reflected on the features of each memorial, and posted those pictures and reflections into a website. You can see the students' photos and thoughts at: https://sites.google.com/a/brvgs.k12.va.us/brvgs-war-memorials-spring-2017/home
