ALEXANDRIA, VA-The date is set. The Virginia Tech Innovation Campus will have its grand opening on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. But the 11-story Academic Building One will actually be in use a month prior, welcoming the first students to campus.
Construction began three years ago. As The Zebra reported early last year, “the 300,000 square-foot building will provide instruction, research, office, and support spaces for graduate-level programs in data analytics/machine learning, wireless, quantum information sciences, and intelligent interfaces.”
Seeking to establish itself in the Alexandria community, Virginia Tech has supported ACPS students through various partnerships with the school system. For instance, the college, with Amazon, designed a program where students can discover machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence. It also has worked with ACPS to provide students with greater opportunities for STEM-based education.
The keynote speaker for the opening is Regina Dugan, President and CEO of Welcome Leap, and a Virginia Tech alumnus.
“We are thrilled to have Regina address the Virginia Tech community at such an important moment in the life of the university,” said Lance Collins, Vice President and Executive Director of the Innovation Campus. “Regina’s visionary work has always been at ‘the center of next.’ The Innovation Campus – with its location, connections to industry, and future-focused research areas – will help Virginia Tech solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.”
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