The Virginia Governor's Academy for Engineering Studies (GAES) is an award-winning high school specialty center at L.C. Bird High School in Chesterfield, Virginia.

The Academy is cutting edge in that it permits students to take advanced STEM classes within a project-based environment. Students develop a deeper sense of engineering's possibilities and the value it creates.

This HubPages account is administered by the school's Rocket Boosters Club, a non-profit parent group that champions its talented faculty and students.