If You Are a STEM Person
And you have just a little time:
- CBIC Tech Tour – Field Trip, October (this is a terrible name for an AMAZING field trip where you go to startups, robotics labs, app developers, etc. SO. FUN.)
- Field Trip to Dominion’s Lake Anna Power Plant
- Girls Geek Days (go once, or several times): volunteer to help young girls learn about STEM. Saturday mornings.
- Make it Take it at the Library
- Learn to code
- Join the Robotics Club (two teams, the folks who want a life and the folks who live it and breathe it). First Tech Challenge meets at WAHS after school, FIRST Robotics meets at UVA on Sundays.
- Google Science Fair
- Intel Talent Search
- ACE Mentor (Architecture, Construction, and Engineering) after school, work with professionals.
- VASTS
- Virginia Space Coast Scholars
- BLAST
- Virginia Science Fair
- Mini Medical School (at UVA)
- Mini Medical School (at WAHS)
- Engineer Girl
- Charlottesville has a Mobile App Designer and Developer meetup group
- There is also a Charlottesville Game Developers meetup group
- Google Developer Group meetup group
- Central Virginia Javascript Enthusiasts meetup group
- Charlottesville Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup
- Charlottesville DevOpsCV meetup group
- beCraft meetup group
- Center for Open Science i
- All women maker club
- Made with Code
- Math, Science, & Technology Governor’s School, Engineering Governor’s School, Health and Medical Sciences Governor’s School, VIMS Governor School
- Nicodemus Wilderness Program
- VESSS
- Ivy Creek Natural Area
If You Are a Humanities Person
And you have just a little time:
And you have a lot of time:
- Writer’s Eye Field Trip in the fall
- Walking tours with the Albemarle Historical Society ($5/person)
- Virginia Festival of the Book
- Tupelo Teen Press
- Spring and Fall Friends of the Jefferson Madison Regional Library Sale
- Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
- UVA’s Special Collections Library (rotating exhibits)
And you have a lot of time:
- Scholastic Arts and Letters
- Humanities Governor’s School
- Myriad Literary Magazine
- Yearbook
- Western Hemisphere
- Model UN
- Young Arts
- Poetry Out Loud
- Skipping Stones
- National History Day
- Bennington Young Writers
- Humanity Rising
- Virginia Women in History
- The Claremont Review
- Sincerely Magazine
- Writer House
- The Bridge PAI
- Hatton Ferry
If You Are a Visual &
Performing Arts Person
And you have just a little time:
And you have a lot of time:
- Kluge Rhue Museum of Aboriginal Art
- The Fralin Museum at UVA
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Free to all Virginians!!
- Graves International Art
- Artisan Studio Tour
- McGuffey Art Center (exhibits are free, but classes cost money)
- New City Arts Gallery
- First Fridays in Charlottesville (Galleries are open to all: example)
And you have a lot of time:
- Scholastic Arts and Letters
- World of 7 Billion
- Lighthouse Studio
- Sincerely Magazine
- Arts in Western Education Art Show
- Fashion Square Art Show
- Theater productions at WAHS
- Live Arts
- Four County Players
- Black Box Theater
- Band
- Orchestra
- Visual and Performing Arts Governor’s School
- Four County Players Summer Internship
If You Are Alive & Have a Pulse
And you have a little time:
And you have a lot of time:
- Career Fair at JPJ
- College Fair (rotates)
- College Night
And you have a lot of time:
- Independent Study
- Internship
- Summer Job
- Community Service
- Study Abroad (try Yes Abroad!, NSLI-Y, or other State Department Programs)