The new office at ODU was created to help the university meet one of its strategic plan goals of having 100% of students participate in a work-based learning opportunity before graduating.
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In Newport News, the lab school would bring a new maritime offering to high school students. In Chesapeake, the program would introduce an IB program at Oscar Smith Middle School, with a computer science focus.
Through a pair of grants totaling $400,000, Old Dominion University is developing a pair of "lab schools" one aimed at creating a technology talent pipeline in Chesapeake and the other focused on the maritime field.