<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InformAction"><span style="display:none" itemprop="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><meta itemprop="description" content="Invitation from swvasteamntdsync@swvastemnextthreedayssync.iam.gserviceaccount.com"/></span><span itemprop="object" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event"><div style=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" border="0" summary="" style="width:100%;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;border:1px Solid #ccc;border-width:1px 2px 2px 1px;background-color:#fff;"><tr><td><meta itemprop="eventStatus" content="http://schema.org/EventScheduled"/><h4 style="padding:6px 0;margin:0 0 4px 0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.4;border:1px Solid #fff;background:#fff;color:#090;font-weight:normal"><strong>You have been invited to the following event.</strong></h4><div style="padding:2px"><span itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Google Calendar"/></span><meta itemprop="eventId/googleCalendar" content="i84rhhmb8ucdl0304rrj0asv9c"/><div style="float:right;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px"> <a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=aTg0cmhobWI4dWNkbDAzMDRycmowYXN2OWMgc3RlbS1hbm5vdW5jZUBsaXN0cy5yYnRjLnRlY2g&tok=NTIjdG1yODdhbzc0N2IwNG0wajhxdnY0dnYya2tAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbTdjN2NhNDc4ZmZjMTgwYjNjOWY0Y2MyODIwN2ZmNmFhMjNmN2JkZjQ&ctz=UTC&hl=en&es=0" style="color:#20c;white-space:nowrap" itemprop="url">more details »</a><br></div><h3 style="padding:0 0 6px 0;margin:0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;color:#222"><span itemprop="name">New River Robotics Association Ribbon Cutting & Open House</span></h3><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" summary="Event details"><tr><td style="padding:0 1em 10px 0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#888;white-space:nowrap;width:90px" valign="top"><div><i style="font-style:normal">When</i></div></td><td style="padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222" valign="top"><div style="text-indent:-1px"><time itemprop="startDate" datetime="20190717T160000Z"></time><time itemprop="endDate" datetime="20190717T200000Z"></time>Wed Jul 17, 2019 4pm – 8pm <span style="color:#888">Coordinated Universal Time</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0 1em 10px 0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#888;white-space:nowrap;width:90px" valign="top"><div><i style="font-style:normal">Where</i></div></td><td style="padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222" valign="top"><div style="text-indent:-1px"><span itemprop="location" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="name" class="notranslate">Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center
1715 Pratt Drive, Suite 1000
Blacksburg, VA 24060</span><span dir="ltr"> (<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/Virginia+Tech+Corporate+Research+Center%0D%0A1715+Pratt+Drive,+Suite+1000%0D%0ABlacksburg,+VA+24060?hl=en" style="color:#20c;white-space:nowrap" target="_blank" itemprop="map">map</a>)</span></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0 1em 10px 0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#888;white-space:nowrap;width:90px" valign="top"><div><i style="font-style:normal">Calendar</i></div></td><td style="padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222" valign="top"><div style="text-indent:-1px">stem-announce@lists.rbtc.tech</div></td></tr><tr><td style="padding:0 1em 10px 0;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#888;white-space:nowrap;width:90px" valign="top"><div><i style="font-style:normal">Who</i></div></td><td style="padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222" valign="top"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td style="padding-right:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222;width:10px"><div style="text-indent:-1px"><span style="font-family:Courier New,monospace">&#x2022;</span></div></td><td style="padding-right:10px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222"><div style="text-indent:-1px"><div><div style="margin:0 0 0.3em 0"><span itemprop="attendee" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name" class="notranslate">RBTC STEM Event Announcer</span><meta itemprop="email" content="stem-announce@lists.rbtc.tech"/></span></div></div></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><div style="padding-bottom:15px;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#222;white-space:pre-wrap!important;white-space:-moz-pre-wrap!important;white-space:-pre-wrap!important;white-space:-o-pre-wrap!important;white-space:pre;word-wrap:break-word"><span>The New River Robotics Association presents their Ribbon Cutting and Open House on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.<p>The New River Robotics Association (NRRA) has moved to a bigger spot within the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center! Visit our new location, learn about FIRST Tech Challenge and the Tuxedo Pandas, as well as all the robotics competitions in the FIRST family, open to grades K through 12.</p><p>Learn about the Summer Build-Shops that will be offered to students in rising grades 7-9 every Monday and Tuesday from 4:30-6:30 PM. Boys and girls are encouraged to work as a team on a claw grabber game and possibly, a NERF combat robot. Building a robot this summer may inspire a desire to join the 2019-2020 FTC team and compete in a worldwide robotics challenge.</p><p>The ribbon cutting with the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce will be held at 1:30 pm. </p><p>The new location will offer more space to learn about tools,  basic machining, programming, 3-D printing, computer-aided designing, and of course, robot building. The NRRA will continue to offer volunteer time and energy to promote STEM in the New River Valley. These volunteers are local business leaders dedicated to inspiring young people by engaging them in STEM via robotics competitions, outreach activities, workshops and experiments. NRRA will also continue to offer assistance to educators and parents who want to be involved in the family of FIRST opportunities.</p><p>On a related note, the FTC Team 4924, Tuxedo Pandas, is looking for 7th-9th grade students interested in learning more about robotics, CAD, machining, marketing, programming and building.</p><p>The address of the new facility is located at 2270 Kraft Drive in Suite 1900 in Blacksburg, VA within the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.</p><p>For more information, visit: <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTuxedoPandas%2F&sa=D&ust=1563594562712000&usg=AFQjCNHTanXaXrDbP1_9S_F8DzEMBHY4xQ" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/TuxedoPandas/</a> or <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newriverrobotics.org%2F&sa=D&ust=1563594562712000&usg=AFQjCNFpe2UW-ZUyxUEzYJ6wwPS2Iob_pw" target="_blank">https://www.newriverrobotics.org/</a>.</p><p>Cost: See Description</p></span><meta itemprop="description" content="The New River Robotics Association presents their Ribbon Cutting and Open House on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.

The New River Robotics Association (NRRA) has moved to a bigger spot within the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center! Visit our new location, learn about FIRST Tech Challenge and the Tuxedo Pandas, as well as all the robotics competitions in the FIRST family, open to grades K through 12.

Learn about the Summer Build-Shops that will be offered to students in rising grades 7-9 every Monday and Tuesday from 4:30-6:30 PM. Boys and girls are encouraged to work as a team on a claw grabber game and possibly, a NERF combat robot. Building a robot this summer may inspire a desire to join the 2019-2020 FTC team and compete in a worldwide robotics challenge.

The ribbon cutting with the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce will be held at 1:30 pm. 

The new location will offer more space to learn about tools,  basic machining, programming, 3-D printing, computer-aided designing, and of course, robot building. The NRRA will continue to offer volunteer time and energy to promote STEM in the New River Valley. These volunteers are local business leaders dedicated to inspiring young people by engaging them in STEM via robotics competitions, outreach activities, workshops and experiments. NRRA will also continue to offer assistance to educators and parents who want to be involved in the family of FIRST opportunities.

On a related note, the FTC Team 4924, Tuxedo Pandas, is looking for 7th-9th grade students interested in learning more about robotics, CAD, machining, marketing, programming and building.

The address of the new facility is located at 2270 Kraft Drive in Suite 1900 in Blacksburg, VA within the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.

For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/TuxedoPandas/ or https://www.newriverrobotics.org/.

Cost: See Description"/></div></div><p style="color:#222;font-size:13px;margin:0"><span style="color:#888">Going (stem-announce@lists.rbtc.tech)?   </span><wbr><strong><span itemprop="potentialaction" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/RsvpAction"><meta itemprop="attendance" content="http://schema.org/RsvpAttendance/Yes"/><span itemprop="handler" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/HttpActionHandler"><link itemprop="method" href="http://schema.org/HttpRequestMethod/GET"/><a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=RESPOND&eid=aTg0cmhobWI4dWNkbDAzMDRycmowYXN2OWMgc3RlbS1hbm5vdW5jZUBsaXN0cy5yYnRjLnRlY2g&rst=1&tok=NTIjdG1yODdhbzc0N2IwNG0wajhxdnY0dnYya2tAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbTdjN2NhNDc4ZmZjMTgwYjNjOWY0Y2MyODIwN2ZmNmFhMjNmN2JkZjQ&ctz=UTC&hl=en&es=0" style="color:#20c;white-space:nowrap" itemprop="url">Yes</a></span></span><span style="margin:0 0.4em;font-weight:normal"> - </span><span itemprop="potentialaction" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/RsvpAction"><meta itemprop="attendance" content="http://schema.org/RsvpAttendance/Maybe"/><span itemprop="handler" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/HttpActionHandler"><link itemprop="method" href="http://schema.org/HttpRequestMethod/GET"/><a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=RESPOND&eid=aTg0cmhobWI4dWNkbDAzMDRycmowYXN2OWMgc3RlbS1hbm5vdW5jZUBsaXN0cy5yYnRjLnRlY2g&rst=3&tok=NTIjdG1yODdhbzc0N2IwNG0wajhxdnY0dnYya2tAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbTdjN2NhNDc4ZmZjMTgwYjNjOWY0Y2MyODIwN2ZmNmFhMjNmN2JkZjQ&ctz=UTC&hl=en&es=0" style="color:#20c;white-space:nowrap" itemprop="url">Maybe</a></span></span><span style="margin:0 0.4em;font-weight:normal"> - </span><span itemprop="potentialaction" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/RsvpAction"><meta itemprop="attendance" content="http://schema.org/RsvpAttendance/No"/><span itemprop="handler" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/HttpActionHandler"><link itemprop="method" href="http://schema.org/HttpRequestMethod/GET"/><a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=RESPOND&eid=aTg0cmhobWI4dWNkbDAzMDRycmowYXN2OWMgc3RlbS1hbm5vdW5jZUBsaXN0cy5yYnRjLnRlY2g&rst=2&tok=NTIjdG1yODdhbzc0N2IwNG0wajhxdnY0dnYya2tAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbTdjN2NhNDc4ZmZjMTgwYjNjOWY0Y2MyODIwN2ZmNmFhMjNmN2JkZjQ&ctz=UTC&hl=en&es=0" style="color:#20c;white-space:nowrap" itemprop="url">No</a></span></span></strong>    <wbr><a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=aTg0cmhobWI4dWNkbDAzMDRycmowYXN2OWMgc3RlbS1hbm5vdW5jZUBsaXN0cy5yYnRjLnRlY2g&tok=NTIjdG1yODdhbzc0N2IwNG0wajhxdnY0dnYya2tAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbTdjN2NhNDc4ZmZjMTgwYjNjOWY0Y2MyODIwN2ZmNmFhMjNmN2JkZjQ&ctz=UTC&hl=en&es=0" style="color:#20c;white-space:nowrap" itemprop="url">more options »</a></p></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:#f6f6f6;color:#888;border-top:1px Solid #ccc;font-family:Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:11px"><p>Invitation from <a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/" target="_blank" style="">Google Calendar</a></p><p>You are receiving this courtesy email at the account stem-announce@lists.rbtc.tech because you are an attendee of this event.</p><p>To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at https://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.</p><p>Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer and be added to the guest list, or invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or to modify your RSVP. <a href="https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding">Learn More</a>.</p></td></tr></table></div></span></span>