Across Campus - A Photo Essay

ODU students, faculty and 90 fifth-graders from Jacox Elementary School in Norfolk recently learned about Black Currency Day at various campus locations through interactive discussions, poetry, art, trivia and black history lessons. Jennifer Kidd, a senior lecturer in the Darden College of Education, spearheaded the event to provide learning opportunities about prominent black Americans and racial inequalities that persist today. Photos by Chuck Thomas

Black Currency Day

Vukica Jovanovic, an assistant professor of engineering technology, gives Daria Taylor a hands-on demonstration of a larger robot built by an ODU student.

Black Currency Day

Students from Jacox Elementary School pose with SumoBots for a picture with assistant professors Daniel Foster and Vukica Jovanovic.

Black Currency Day

ODU students walk past an over-sized book that Cat Slate created for Black Currency Day. Slate, a senior education major, designed a game to raise awareness of racial profiling.

Black Currency Day

Education is a key component in the discussion of racial inequities and an avenue for solutions to problems that plague our country.

Black Currency Day

Jennifer Kidd, a senior lecturer of teaching and learning with the Darden College of Education, answers questions outside a crowded room. Kidd spearheaded the event as a way to learn about prominent blacks.

Black Currency Day

Ashlin Bloxom helps Darius Anderson, a fifth grader from Jacox Elementary School, download his video. Bloxom is a junior speech pathology major from the Eastern Shore.

Black Currency Day

Jacqueline Mayer (center) helps Jakayla Jones and Jamir Germany download a video about careers they made using Blabberize.

Black Currency Day

Ashlin Bloxom escorts students from Jacox Elementary School to Kaufman Hall, where they will learn about engineering. Ninety Jacox students attended classes taught by ODU students and faculty across campus.

Black Currency Day

Daniel Foster, an assistant professor of engineering technology, explains the different types of engineers to students from Jacox Elementary School.

Black Currency Day

Vukica Jovanovic, an assistant professor of engineering technology, shows Egypt Nelson how a Sumobot sees, using ultrasound.

Black Currency Day

Monya Owens smiles as his SumoBot pushes his competition out of the circle.

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