Outreach & DEI

K-12 OUTREACH

The Yu Research Group believes that cultivating the next-generation manufacturing leaders is a top priority, especially those pre-college young talents. Over the last five years, the PI and his students have actively engaged in K-12 outreach via collaboration with the Center for Engineering Education and Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Tech. The picture above shows PI’s graduate students performing lab demos for C-Tech2, a summer camp for high school women who are rising juniors and seniors; and JROTC, a military-based summer camp that fosters competencies in STEM. Exit surveys from these groups of students showed that the PI’s laboratory made an impact on many of the students.