Virginia Tech Roanoke Center

04/09/2026

Data skills are powering today’s workforce — are yours keeping up?

Register for Virginia Tech’s Introduction to Data Analytics online certificate course and build practical, in-demand skills you can use right away.

Click on the link in the comments.

04/08/2026

Join us for this free online session from the Virginia Tech Southwest Center and Reynolds Homestead!

✨REGISTER NOW!✨ We’re excited to team up with Reynolds Homestead and Virginia Tech Agricultural & Applied Economics for our April session in the 2026 Virtual Training Series!
Join us for a practical and insightful conversation on preparing your farm and land to outlive you, blending both legal guidance and real‑world farming experience.
Our speaker, Jennifer Friedel, Associate Professor of Practice with Virginia Tech’s Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Director of Virginia’s Land Use–Value Assessment Program (LUVA), will share tools and strategies to help landowners plan for long-term success.
📅 April 22
🕘 9:30–10:30 AM
💻 Virtual Training
💬 No cost & open to the public
If you’re a farmer, landowner, or planning for the next generation, this session is packed with valuable, actionable insight.
👉 Registration required — reserve your spot today!
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04/01/2026

03/31/2026

🚀 Come invent with us this summer!
Students ages 11–14 are invited to a FREE Thinkabit Lab Summer Camp at the Virginia Tech Roanoke Center. This hands-on experience introduces students to engineering and computer science through creativity, problem-solving, and invention.
Participants will:

- Create circuits like an electrical engineer
- Code like a computer scientist
- Build an invention like a mechanical engineer

June 29 – July 1, 2026
8:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
Virginia Tech Roanoke Center
Free | Registration required
Register: www.vtrc.vt.edu/STEAM/SummerCamps.htm

03/19/2026

Proud to host City of Roanoke, Virginia - Government Mayor Joe Cobb, the city’s Hope and Home task force, and our colleagues at Virginia Tech Center for Economic & Community Engagement to the Roanoke Center as they explore the root causes of homelessness. More in the comments.

03/12/2026

“It takes a village, and this is that village.” - Janine Underwood, executive director of the and chair of the Roanoke Valley Collective Response advisory committee.

Last week community leaders, researchers, health providers, and recovery advocates gathered at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center for the second Recovery Ecosystems Conference, sharing strategies and strengthening partnerships to address substance use disorder across Southwest Virginia and beyond.

This two-day conference was hosted by Virginia Tech, Roanoke Valley Collective Response, and regional partners.

Learn more about the conference and its different speakers by checking out >>> https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/03/outreach-roanoke-center-recovery-ecosystems-conference.html

Thank you to all who attended and to our gold sponsor Visit Virginia's Blue Ridge.



Virginia Tech

03/02/2026

Today is the last day to register for the Recovery Ecosystem Conference that is March 5-6th at .

Register today before time runs out: bit.ly/RecoveryEcosystem2026

Virginia Tech will award up to 1.0 Continuing Education Units / 10 Contact Hours upon successful completion of the program requirements at the Recovery Ecosystem Conference.

Hosted by Virginia Tech , Roanoke Valley Collective Response , and partners across the region.

02/27/2026

Monday, March 2nd is the last day to register for the Recovery Ecosystem Conference that is March 5-6th at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center . Learn more about this conference by reading the op-ed from our Executive Director Scott Weimer and Roanoke Valley Collective Response Director Bailey Medeiros: https://bit.ly/REOp-ed

Register today: bit.ly/RecoveryEcosystem2026

Hosted by Virginia Tech, Roanoke Valley Collective Response, and partners across the region.



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02/26/2026

Today is the last day before the pricing for the Recovery Ecosystem Conference goes up. Your seat is ready!

Register >>> https://bit.ly/RecoveryRegistration2026

02/25/2026

Recovery takes a community, and our region is showing what’s possible when everyone shows up.

On March 5–6, the Recovery Ecosystems Conference at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center will bring together practitioners, peers with lived experience, researchers, and community leaders to strengthen the networks that help people stay engaged in recovery.

Join us as we make our region is building a stronger, more connected recovery ecosystem.

Read the op-ed from our Executive Director Scott Weimer and Roanoke Valley Collective Response Director Bailey Medeiros: https://bit.ly/REOp-ed

Register today: bit.ly/RecoveryEcosystem2026

Hosted by Virginia Tech, Roanoke Valley Collective Response, and partners across the region.



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02/24/2026

Looking for a Continuing Education Unit (CEU)?

Virginia Tech will award up to 1.0 Continuing Education Units / 10 Contact Hours upon successful completion of the program requirements at the Recovery Ecosystem Conference.

Register today at https://bit.ly/RecoveryEcosystem2026

02/23/2026

First responders. Nurses. Peers. Employers willing to offer a second chance.

Recovery ecosystems are built by people, and their connections to one another.

Read the op-ed from our Executive Director Scott Weimer and Roanoke Valley Collective Response Director Bailey Medeiros about efforts underway right here in Roanoke.

Roanoke Valley Collective Response

The upcoming Recovery Ecosystems Conference will not only showcase successful programs, but will bring together people who rarely all share the same room: practitioners, peers with lived experience…