VCU Vision—a hands-on, overnight program for high school seniors--- July 23 and 24, 2004

Program will be offered if enough students register for the event

VCU Vision—a hands-on, overnight program for high school seniors--- is the collaboration between the School of Business and the School of Engineering on July 23-24. Friday night students have the opportunity to explore the campus, cook outdoors and stay overnight in a residence hall. On Saturday 40 students select two business topics to further explore. In the past, Dr. Michael McDaniel taught People and Organizations: the Right People, the Right Jobs" with students completing vocational interest forms, learning about personality measures and traits and finally, exploring differences in peoples' motivational needs. Dr. Ed Millner introduced creating markets within laboratories in "Economics and the Stock Market: What are you willing to risk?" These controlled experiments tested the ability of economic theories to predict the observed outcomes. Students participated as a buyer or a seller in a series of lab markets. The Engineering School offered sessions relating to creative design of an electro-mechanical system, applications for polymers and a tour of a chemical mini-plant designed and built by senior chemical engineering students.

For further information contact the Engineering School -- Barton B. Cregger, bbcregge@vcu.edu

Frances E. Altman
Public Relations Specialist
School of Business
Virginia Commonwealth University
fealtman@vcu.edu. (804) 827-1801