Grammy-award winner Maroon 5 will perform at Virginia Tech on Tuesday as part of a 13-stop "Back to School" tour.

The band -- best known for "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved" from its debut album "Songs about Jane" -- is getting back to its roots, said keyboardist Jesse Carmichael.

"In the early days, those were our most fun shows when we'd set up at somebody's after-party," Carmichael said. "That was kind of our college experience."

Along with Carmichael, the band is made up of singer Adam Levine, guitarist James Valentine, bassist Mickey Madden and drummer Matt Flynn.

After the tour, the band will travel back to Switzerland to finish an album due out early next year.

To go along with the college theme, the band is giving away $15,000 in the "Starving Student Contest."

Any college student can upload a video to the band's Web site of themselves singing a Maroon 5 song for a chance at winning.

"We're excited to see what people come up with," Carmichael said. "It's always nice to encourage people to be creative."

The Tuesday show is sponsored by Virginia Tech Union, Student Government Association and Hillel at Virginia Tech. The show is also part of the Daniel Pearl Music Day, created in remembrance of the Wall Street Journal journalist killed in Pakistan in 2002.

-- Amy Matzke-Fawcett