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Innovation Campus Fellows

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Innovation Campus fellows explain why the new campus is an exciting Virginia Tech endeavor that will change the future of graduate education and shape the industry.
[00:00:00] >> The idea of being able to help out with something that creates a work force is really appealing to me. It's one of my goals is to help people do the thing they're great at and the idea of a discrete school that literally just helps people get to the professional level is something that's amazing, something you can't help wanting to be a part of. [00:00:19] In the way Virginia Tech is growing in this century and the next few decades to come, Innovation Campus is a big milestone. Job opportunities are going to increase tremendously especially people studying in the Northern Virginia area who are not in the traditional Blacksburg campus will have access to a lot more technical jobs which are specific to their research areas so I think that's a huge plus. [00:00:48] A lot of times from a degree program you get a lot of theory but you don't get a lot of hands on practice and as a result when you come into a field it's almost like you're learning everything new even though you spent four or five years learning everything you're supposed to know so there's always this discrepancy or this difference. [00:01:03] The idea that we can lower that gap so we can come into a job with good ideas, good fundamentals and additionally be able to do the work on day one it's an amazing opportunity.