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Sponsors & Partners

Interested in sponsoring a project or serving as a mentor? Contact Drs. Lisa McNair and Mark Huerta at idpro@vt.edu.

Current Sponsors & Partners

Virginia Tech Partners

  • Department of Engineering Education
  • Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)
  • Department of Food Science & Technology
  • DREAMS Lab
  • Zhao Lab

Industry Partners

  • All Wheels Up
  • Boeing
  • CC Industries/Provisur
  • Friends of the Huckleberry 
  • Wilderness Mountain Water Company 

Mentors

  • Stephen Austin, CC Industries
  • Dr. Julia Basso, Health, Nutrition, Food & Exercise, The Embodied Brain Lab 
  • Dr. William Baumann, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Dr. Bob Berwick, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics
  • Dr. David Gerard, School of Animal Sciences
  • Dr. David Gray, Gray UR, Engineering Education 
  • Dr. Mark Huerta, Engineering Education  
  • Prof. Matt James, Engineering Education  
  • Dr. Lisa McNair, Engineering Education, ICAT 
  • Bemnet Molla, Mechanical Engineering, DREAMS Lab
  • Stephen Moyer, Boeing
  • Prof. Hiromi Okumura, School of Visual Arts, Artist 
  • Prof. Robin Ott, Engineering Education 
  • Jay Strickland, CC Industries
  • Prof. Brian Wiersema, Food Science and Technology
  • Dr. Pinar Yanardag, Computer Science
  • Dr. Bingyu Zhao, Horticulture, The Zhao Lab