Experiential learning, long a key piece of a VCU education, is as important as ever
IN THE NEWS / DECEMBER 2020
Nursing student Lyndsey Highlander took a chance on such an opportunity and was amazed at what she learned. She volunteered to take part in a design sprint through the VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation where teams develop an idea for a product.
“Close to when COVID started, we were getting all these emails from the School of Nursing that told us about things we could do to help out during the pandemic,” Highlander said. “One of the emails said, ‘Expand your mind, do something different. Join the da Vinci innovation team sprint for COVID.’ I was like, oh, that sounds kind of cool.”
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