NSU to Host Third Hands-On FutureTech Event on August 23

Norfolk, Va.—Norfolk State University will host the 3rd Hands-On FutureTech event Saturday, August 23 at the Marie V. McDemmond Center for Applied Research, which is located on the NSU campus. The event is free and open to students interested in science and technology.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, FutureTech will bring faculty, staff and graduate students from several research centers to the NSU campus to learn more about cutting-edge research occurring at NSU and throughout the country. Participants will also learn about opportunities at Science and Technology Centers, understand the research that shapes our future, and find out how they can get involved. There will also be a host of hands-on demonstrations as well as fun and interactive experiments. 

Participating universities include Norfolk State University, Purdue University, University of Washington, Cornell University, Georgia Tech, and University of California at Los Angeles. They represent the Partnership for Photonic Metamaterials, led by NSU; the Center for Embedded Network Sensing, led by UCLA; the Center for Materials and Devices for Information Technology, led by UW; Cornell Center for Materials Research and the Purdue¹s Network for Computational Nanotechnology, which has awarded NSU a grant to provide this free event to local students.

For more information or to register, visit http://www.nsu.edu/futuretech or call 823-8403.