December 14, 2011 As humans, we are naturally drawn to learning about the things we can see - the computers on our desks and the telephones that we use every day for example. But a growing contingency in the science community is interested in something even smaller. What holds together the particles that make up that computer? What causes the wires inside the telephone to send a signal? These questions are part of the nanoscience and nanotechnology fields, and educators at the MathScience Innovation Center have spent years travelling far and wide to learn about these ideas and to develop curriculum based on the knowledge that is being discovered. On Thursday, Dec. 8, they placed some big ideas on very tiny matter in front of educational leaders from around the area.

December 13, 2011 - The Fall 2011 Let's Innovate conference for middle school students drew over 150 students to the MathScience Innovation Center where they learned how to create augmented reality games for smartphones.

December 8, 2011 - Science teachers Aron Fristoe and Wayne Gilcrest get a leg up in planning their Governor's School class A River Runs Through It with a grant from the Virginia Department of Environmental Science.

December 6, 2011 - Hands-on experimentation is the pinnacle of learning, but sometimes the devices we dream of using just aren't available. So what is a teacher to do? Invent the device, of course! Grade 6-12 Sceince teacher Jim Lehman explains the device he created to teach the Movers and Shakers lesson.

December 1, 2011 - Meet the newest member of the MathScience Innovation Center team: Georgia Terwilliger.

Terwilliger will be filling in on our K-5 science team teaching such lessons as Skeletons and Defense, the Shape of Things, and Give Me a Clue. She is a substitute teacher with Hanover County Public Schools and enjoys dancing.

November 5, 2011 - Spooktacular rocked this year! This 3rd Grade lesson, taught virtually from our broadcast booth here at the MathScience Innovation Center, connects multiple classrooms across Central Virginia for a one-hour lesson about things that creep, crawl and bump in the night.

October 15, 2011 - 153 Students Attended The First of Three Let's Innovate Conferences For Middle School Students. Held on Saturday, October 15, the MathScience Innovation Center had a packed house with the first of three one-day conferences for middle school students for the academic year.

October 12, 2011 - Faculty member Daphne Schmidt was interviewed on WCVE's John Ogle about upcoming Student Conferences.

October 11, 2011 - Metro Richmond Science Fair Grand Prize Winner Samantha Marquez chosen to receive the Thomas Edison Innovation Award and will be inducted in the National Gallery of Young Inventor's Hall of Fame.

October 3, 2011 - Today is the first day school divisions sent students to lessons on this campus for 2011-2012. Hanover's Chickahominy Middle and Liberty Middle were in the Challenger Center; Powhatan's Flat Rock Elementary was in the Dominion Weather Center and World of Spiders; Hanover's Cold Harbor Elementary was in the Eco-Detectives Center; Hanover's Battlefield Park Elementary and South Anna Elementary was in Fractal Keys, LEGO Energy and Pico Park; Richmond's George Mason Elementary was in Mystery Cargo and Skeletons and Defense.

This week 178 classes were scheduled to be taught by MathScience Innovation Center faculty. What a way to start off the month!

September 27, 2011 - Chip In for Education Golf Tournament at The Crossings. Congratulations to the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park Authority team who came in 1st Place.