The inVenT’s Rocketry Team consists of about 30 members from all different majors such as mechanical, computer and even a chemical engineer. The team is divided into 3 sub teams. The first sub team is the aero team who works on the build and the aerodynamics of the rocket. The second team is the mechanical team and they work on the payload and other components such as the drag system. The third team is the electrical team and they work on data logging, controlling the rocket

Storytime: The Big Event 2016 It was Saturday, April 9th, 2016. I had signed up with Galileo to complete a random service project for The Big Event. All the volunteers had gathered out on the drill field, and we were waiting for everyone to arrive before heading out to our assigned service project. It was freezing cold and overcast, and the forecast said snow. The event organizers had a stage setup out in front of the April 16th memorial where they were playing music. It’s ca

Interested in joining a fraternity or sorority where you will meet a whole bunch of people with a common interest and create lifelong friendships? Well here at Virginia Tech, there are plenty of educational based frats and sororities to choose from. Some of these include Alpha Omega Epsilon, an all-girls engineering sorority, Sigma Phi Delta, an all-guys engineering frat and Alpha Chi Sigma, a coed chemistry frat. Alpha Omega Epsilon (AOE) is an all-girls professional philant

Everyone knows sleep is extremely important, especially with a college workload so it important to make sure you’re getting the most out of it. The pattern everyone is most familiar with is sleeping for 6-8 hours, followed by being awake for 16-18 hours and a lot of our culture is designed around this as well. Surprisingly, this is just one of several different sleep patterns that have been commonly used before. Other sleep patterns involve naps throughout the day rather than