{"id":2,"date":"2021-06-08T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.odu.edu\/odufacultytemplate\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-06-08T12:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:56:26","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Home ODU BLAST 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Dominion University will host two virtual sessions of Virginia Space Grant Consortium&#8217;s BLAST (Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology) summer program, a hands-on intensive STEM-related program for one hundred and sixty rising 9<sup>th<\/sup> and 10th-grade students and eight teacher-chaperones from across Virginia.&nbsp; Tours and other special STEM-related evening events are planned to enhance the on-campus ODU experience.&nbsp; ODU BLAST is funded by the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. Session 1: June 20-23, 2021 and&nbsp;Session 2: July 18-21, 2021<\/p>\n<p>ODU BLAST is a program that is intended to build leaders for advancing science and technology (BLAST).&nbsp; ODU BLAST taps into the strengths and talents of the ODU faculty and graduate students who collectively address one of ODU\u2019s signature area, <em>the mitigation, and adaptation to climate change and sea-level rise <\/em>that is aligned with one of the main NASA topics &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/earth\/index.html\">EXPLORE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/earth\/index.html\">EARTH<\/a><\/em>&#8221; that focuses on enhancing our understanding of Earth\u2019s atmosphere and climate through scientific research driven by new instruments and data collected.&nbsp;ODU encourages and supports research, teaching, and outreach on a number of topics related to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change and sea-level rise including sustainable building, development of alternative energies, resilience efforts, and how to better communicate and engage the community on visioning and shaping their future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Youth Program Director: Vukica Jovanovi\u0107, Ph.D., &nbsp;\/ Vukitsa Yovanovich\/, Associate Professor, Engineering Technology, 757-683-3769, <a style=\"font-style: normal\" href=\"mailto:v2jovano@odu.edu\">v2jovano@odu.edu<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Previous ODU BLAST sessions&#8217; websites can be found here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2019\/\">June 23-26, 2019 &#8211; ODU BLAST 20219 (click here)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2018\/\">June 25-28, 2018 &#8211; ODU BLAST 2018 (click here)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odugearup2017\/\">June 25-28, 2017 &#8211; ODU GEAR UP 2017 (click here)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2017\/\">June 18-21, 2017 &#8211; ODU BLAST 2017 (click here)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ODUBLAST2016\/\">June 25-28, 2016 &#8211; ODU BLAST 2016 (click here)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Dominion University will host two virtual sessions of Virginia Space Grant Consortium&#8217;s BLAST (Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology) summer program, a hands-on intensive STEM-related program for one hundred and sixty rising 9th and 10th-grade students and eight&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2021\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2384,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odublast2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}