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This is the Virginia Tech Child
Development Center For Learning and
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Research. Today we're honored to have a visit from
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our state's First Lady Pamela Northam.
She's visiting early childhood programs
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throughout Southwest Virginia
and she selected our school on campus to tour and visit.
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I love that this is an educational facility where we're doing research and
helping to understand the data around
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the importance of those first few
critical years.
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And it's important that we do have that
data so we can say,
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this is an investment that's so worth it
in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We know
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that for every dollar invested we get a huge return
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in these early years and that's what
facilities like this are doing here at
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Virginia Tech, they're bringing in early childhood
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development courses, they're bringing the students here so
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they can see it in action and that's a
great way to learn. We all like to learn
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by doing, whether you're four or whether
you're 20.
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And so they're doing that here and
providing that opportunity and it
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provides care and opportunity for those
around the Virginia Tech campus.
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She's aware that we are Virginia Quality
Center,
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and then we also participate in the
state's mixed delivery and preschool
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development grant initiatives.
And the purpose of those grants is to
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enhance not just accessibility
but also affordability, as well as
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quality, for early childhood
education throughout the state.
