Sept. 25, 2025: Flip the Fair 2025

September 25: Join us for Flip the Fair 2025! Flip the Fair is a flipped science fair where graduate students and post-docs present their research science-fair-style on tri-fold poster boards, and 5th graders judge them! Prizes awarded to the best presenters!

This year’s event will be held at the Melrose Branch of the Roanoke Public Library on Sept. 25th from 8am-2pm.  As added value, presenters also are given the opportunity for communication skills training at a professional development workshop in preparation for the event. Sign up to present here! The deadline to sign up as a presenter is Friday, September 5.

Want to participate but don’t have time to do a poster?  Sign up to volunteer at the event instead! We are looking for undergraduates, graduates, post-docs, faculty, and staff to assist at the event. There are several shifts to choose from, sign up to volunteer here! The deadline to sign up as a volunteer is Friday, September 19. 

This event is proudly sponsored by Roanoke Public Libraries, Roanoke City Public Schools, the Student Outreach Program at VTC, VT Global Change Center, VT Center for Communicating Science, The Graduate School, VT’s Pandemic Prediction Destination Area, and the U.S. NSF COMPASS Center. We also gratefully acknowledge the generous donations from our partner programs at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, VT College of Sciences, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, VT Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens, and VT Department of Computer Sciences. 

Questions?  Contact the organizing team: 

• Amanda Hensley: amandaah@vt.edu 
• Megan Evans: megane97@vt.edu