History Lab projects use the latest technologies to present new historical stories and representations. Lifting up the experiences of individuals and groups who were traditionally marginalized, our experiences create new ways to make sense of the past, present, and future.
WE ARE VIRGINIA TECH: 150 YEARS OF HOKIE HISTORY
PROJECTION MAPPING EXHIBIT
See how Virginia Tech has grown from its 1872 beginnings to today. Learn about critical phases of campus growth, the creation of Hokie traditions, and the difficult histories of groups such as women and Black people struggling to claim their own places in the Hokie nation.
If this place could talk, what would it tell us? Extended reality technology guides users around the grounds of Virginia Tech’s oldest building, uncovering layer upon layer of history--from Indigenous landscape to slave plantation to university building.
Let your smartphone guide you across campus as you learn how the first generations of Black students forged their own communities and spaces at Virginia Tech.
