The STEM Education Collaboratory is located in 112 Seitz Hall on the Virginia Tech main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It provides the space and equipment to conduct interdisciplinary outreach, professional development, research and instruction in integrating science education, technology education, K-12 engineering education, and mathematics education. This $1.2 million renovated facility includes collaborative space, digital media areas, science and technology laboratories, and a prototyping laboratory. The STEM Education Collaboratory also supports remote collaboration through Polycom video conferencing and Adobe Connect web conferencing technologies. The development of this innovative space was made possible through funding from the Virginia Tech Office of the Provost, the Office of International Research, Education, and Development, the School of Education, and the generous contributions of individual donors.

The STEM Education Collaboratory is designed to be used for instruction, outreach, and research. Instruction is used to indicate events or activities where university students are the intended participants and can include formally scheduled classes or other events not a part of a class. Outreach denotes events or activities where the indented participants are not affiliated with the university. The intention is that approximately half the available time be used for instruction and about half for outreach. Administrative uses, such as meetings, should be minimized. Research can be conducted with both instruction and outreach activities.