Nearly 40 high school students from across the country gathered on Virginia Tech’s campus in July to take part in the inaugural Explore Data Science camp, hosted by the College of Science.
Targeted toward rising juniors and seniors, Explore Data Science was one of four camps held by the College of Science this summer. Specialized physical science and life science camps also were offered to high school juniors and seniors, while a general science camp was designed for rising seventh through ninth graders.
Explore Data Science provided an introduction to the growing field of data science, a transdisciplinary field that draws upon concepts of statistics, mathematics, and computer and information science to extract knowledge and insight from data.
“We created the data science camp because high school students don’t have much exposure to data analytics in their schools,” said Victoria Corbin, assistant dean of outreach and student engagement in the College of Science.
During the three-day camp, Virginia Tech experts presented students with hands-on experiences collecting, analyzing, and presenting data across different disciplines with topics covering the spectrum from psychology and statistics to geoscience and game theory.
Source: https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/08/science-data-science-camp.html