Old Dominion University will host ODU BLAST (Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology), a summer and residential, hands-on intensive STEM-related program for eighty rising 9^th and 10th-grade students and eight teacher-chaperones from across Virginia.  Tours and other special STEM-related evening events are planned to enhance the on-campus ODU experience.  ODU BLAST is funded by the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. Sessions are during these dates:

• June 20-23, 2021 – ODU BLAST 2021 (click here)
• June 23-26, 2019 – ODU BLAST 2019 (click here)
• June 17-20, 2018 – ODU BLAST 2018 (click here)
• June 25-28, 2017 – ODU GEAR UP 2017 (click here)
• June 18-21, 2017 – ODU BLAST 2017 (click here)
• June 25-28, 2016 – ODU BLAST 2016 (click here)

• Youth Program Director: Vukica Jovanović, Ph.D.,  / Vukitsa Yovanovich/, Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology, 757-683-3769, v2jovano@odu.edu