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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as </span>[http://www.vt.edu <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Virginia Tech</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">, was established in 1872 in Blacksburg, VA. Virginia Tech is a public, land-grant university built around the campus motto, Ut Prosim, "That I May Serve." The campus mascot is the HokieBird who easily blends into the sea of maroon and orange provided by 33,000 Hokies, in 250 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. &nbsp;The university fulfills its land-grant mission of learning, discovery, and engagement, transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across Virginia. VT is ranked 44th in university research in the United States.</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Virginia Tech’s growing innovation ecosystem &nbsp;includes interdisciplinary collaboration between institutes and department across the university to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among students. One example is the partnership between the </span>[http://www.icat.vt.edu <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology</span>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">with the </span>[http://www.pamplin.vt.edu <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Pamplin College of Business</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">, which aims to expand and refine efforts to prepare students for entrepreneurial opportunities. In 2016, the university has announced the formation of a </span>[https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/09/da-cid.html <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Creativity and Innovation District</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">, &nbsp;that will guide future thinking, repurpose assets, and create physical space that is intended to leverage creative and entrepreneurial activities and spark interdisciplinary innovations.</span>