
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 27, 1995                   TAG: 9504270047
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

TOUR DE TECH HAS THREE-DAY RUN ON CAMPUS|

The Tour de Tech, an engineering and science exposition that coincides with the Tour DuPont bicycle race, begins today and runs through Saturday on the Virginia Tech campus.

Stage 4 of the Tour DuPont, the premier cycling event in North America, finishes in Blacksburg on Sunday.

This is the third year the university has sponsored Tour de Tech. The exhibit is put together by the Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures at Virginia Tech, the university's College of Education and Montgomery County Schools.

Richard Klein, director of the University of Illinois Bicycle Institute, will be one of the featured exhibitors for the second straight year. Klein specially designs bicycles that demonstrate scientific phenomena and engineering feats.

The Tour de Tech's Science and Technology Expo will be held in Squires Commonwealth Ballroom. Hours are 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. today and 5 p.m.-9 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday.

Saturday's activities will include a series of fun runs for youngsters at 10 a.m. followed by a bicycle rally at 11 a.m. An ``Energetic Social Ride'' will be held at noon and a short family ride begins at 12:30.

by CNB