The Team The Giving Innovative Futures with Technology team, better known as GIFT, is helping engineer a better future for Virginia Tech. GIFT is a community service-oriented design team, similar to a think tank. The members look for technical problems around campus and work to engineer solutions. It was founded in the spring of 2025 by Jia Xi Lin, Alexander Ibacache, and Jamie Christen Osmeña. It has since grown to around sixty active members, with a very promising projected growth. GIFT...

The Team During the summer of 2025, Virginia Tech’s Concrete Canoe Club participated in the ASCE National Competition at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. In a close competition amongst nineteen concrete canoe teams from around the world, Virginia Tech placed second overall. As a new big player in the Concrete Canoe world, Virginia Tech came to the competition with over twenty students and their advisor, Thomas Carnes. The team was led by captains Conor Thoresen...