One of Georgia Tech’s core values, “We act ethically,” guides our priorities every day. But Ethics Awareness Week puts a spotlight on that value and the ways we engage ethically around campus.

This year’s events, taking place Nov. 8–12, will be a mix of scheduled in-person, virtual, and hybrid events, daily ethics IQ questions, and in-person ethics tables around campus. Experts  from the Veterans Resource Center, the LGBTQIA Resource Center, Ethicx, and the Alumni Association, among others, will join the Office of Ethics and Compliance to showcase ethics in a variety of contexts.

Kara Tucker, lead counsel and director of Ethics and Compliance in the Office of the General Counsel, said partnering with campus departments helped create a diverse schedule of events that provides an opportunity for everyone to engage.

“As an organization whose mission is to develop leaders in  our students, faculty, and staff, we know that leading ethically is a critical component. A leader is anyone who influences others, and we aim to create leaders who not only act ethically, but also influence others to act ethically.”

View a full list of the week’s events and chances to win door prizes at ethicsfirst.gatech.edu/ethicsweek.

A few events to look forward to:

  • Game Time Mashup With Executive Leadership: President Ángel Cabrera and Executive Vice Presidents Steven McLaughlin, Chaouki Abdallah, and Kelly Fox will go head-to-head playing familiar games with an ethical twist. Nov. 8, 10:30 a.m. Register to attend.
  • Sticker Blitz With the Ramblin’ Wreck: Visit the Ramblin’ Wreck, take photos, collect vinyl stickers, and receive Ethics First giveaways. Nov. 8, 11 a.m., Exhibition Hall. No registration required.
  • A “Google Chat” With Google's Chief Compliance Officer, Spyro Karetsos: Keynote speaker Spyro Karetsos, chief compliance officer at Google, will offer insight about expectations and best practices at Google. Nov. 9, 10 a.m. Register to attend.
  • Preparing Future Leaders for Ethical Challenges: An interdisciplinary panel of faculty in biological sciences, civil and environmental engineering, business, and public policy discusses teaching ethics and preparing students for ethical dilemmas in their careers. Nov. 10, 11 a.m. Register to attend.
  • Gender Equity From the Perspective of Military Leadership: Examine gender equality and equity in the military through the experiences of two U.S. military members and current Georgia Tech students. They will discuss gender bias and equity, stereotypes, sexism, and how these challenges affect veterans transitioning to civilian life. Nov. 12, 12:30 p.m. Register to attend.

All in-person and hybrid events  will have giveaways and beverages or light refreshments.

This year, Ethics Awareness Week coincides with the annual online compliance training that is required of all employees. The four training modules must be completed by Nov. 19 in the Georgia Tech Learner Dashboard. 

Learn more about ethics at Georgia Tech at ethicsfirst.gatech.edu.

Tara Holdampf is the new College of Sciences satellite counselor, and will provide consultation services and support for students from an office at the Molecular Science and Engineering Building (MoSE). 

“I'm excited to join the incredibly welcoming and talented group at the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech as a satellite counselor,” Holdampf says, “to continue the process of breaking down barriers between students and mental health services.”

Satellite counselor locations improve accessibility for students by providing counseling in places where students spend most of their time. Placing a counselor in an academic department helps to destigmatize mental health and may serve those who might hesitate to go to the Georgia Tech Counseling Center. A primary goal is to reach students who might not have otherwise sought out services. 

Holdampf will provide a wide variety of services such as individual counseling, group counseling, psycho-educational workshops, and walk-in hours for brief consultations (available to students, or faculty/staff who need to consult about a student). 

Holdampf issues a reminder that “as stress levels increase, and the fall semester continues, please know that GT CARE and GTCC are here to offer confidential support and services to students in need of mental healthcare.”

Currently enrolled interested students can reach out to GT CARE at (404) 894-3498 to schedule an initial assessment, and to be connected to health and wellness services. Current clients can continue to reach their GTCC counselor via email.

Holdampf will be offering consultation hours during which students, faculty, and staff can meet to learn more about mental health resources on campus, and/or to discuss a specific non-emergency student concern. These consults typically last 15 minutes. Those interested can email Holdampf at tara.holdampf@studentlife.gatech.edu to request a meeting. Holdampf will respond with a date/time and link/location for the consultation.

Find Tara's consultation hours and more resources here.

 

Students in need of mental health support after hours can call the GTCC main number at 404-894-2575, and follow the prompts to speak with an after-hours counselor.  Please visit the GTCC website for upcoming workshops, Let’s Talk sessions, and online offerings.

 

Holdampf, who has practiced in a higher education setting for seven years, has an M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia. Holdampf is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and serves on the council of the Georgia College Counseling Association.

As of this week, the omicron variant makes up the majority of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. Omicron is more contagious than previous variants and has caused a spike in cases across the nation, including locally.

The same prevention measures that have been put in place previously can still help slow the spread of this variant — vaccination, wearing a face covering, physical distancing, and regular surveillance testing. A well-fitting mask with good filtration is a strong defense for when you are out in public, even if you are fully vaccinated.

As the campus community looks toward winter break, Georgia Tech encourages all students, faculty, and staff to get fully vaccinated, including a booster shot. Campus vaccination clinics will resume in January; to find a vaccination site before that, visit vaccines.gov. Vaccines help reduce the risk of severe illness and hospitalization.

Anyone with Covid-19 symptoms — even mild ones — should get tested and wait for a negative result before interacting with others. Testing on campus is closed through winter break and will resume Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Until then, you can find an alternate testing site.

We recommend all students, faculty, and staff plan to get tested off-campus before returning for the spring semester, and we recommend each person test again on campus upon their return. Campus testing sites will reopen at full capacity on Jan. 4th to accommodate those returning to campus.

The Georgia Tech College of Computing has received an $11 million grant from Schmidt Futures to create one of the four software engineering centers within the newly launched Virtual Institute for Scientific Software (VISS). The new center will hire half-a-dozen software engineers to write scalable, reliable, and portable open-source software for scientific research.

“Scientific research involves increasingly complex software, technologies, and platforms,” said Alessandro Orso, the software engineer and professor of computer science who is heading up the project. “Also, platforms constantly evolve, and the complexity and amount of data involved is ever-growing.”

The result is that these software systems are often developed as prototypes that are difficult to understand, maintain, and use, which limits their efficacy and ultimately hinders scientific progress.

Software engineers are trained to address these kinds of issues and know how to build high-quality software, but their time is too expensive for a typical research project’s budget. In typical grants, software is often treated as a byproduct of research, meaning that limited funding is allocated for it.

That’s where Schmidt Futures comes in. Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt that bets early on exceptional people making the world better. They are investing $40 million in VISS over five years at four universities: Georgia Tech, University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Cambridge.

“Schmidt Futures’ Virtual Institute for Scientific Software is a core part of our efforts to mobilize exceptional talent to solve specific hard problems in science and society,” said Executive Vice President Elizabeth Young-McNally.

At Georgia Tech, the funds will hire a software engineering lead, as well as three senior and two junior software engineers. A faculty director and an advisory board will help guide the group’s work, which will include collaborations with Georgia Tech scientists.

"We are very proud to host one of the four inaugural Schmidt Futures Virtual Institute of Scientific Software centers,” said Charles Isbell, Dean and John P. Imlay Jr. Chair of Computing.

“Georgia Tech’s center will advance and support scientific research by applying modern software engineering practices, cutting-edge technologies, and modern tools to the development of scientific software. The center will also engage with students and researchers to train the next generation of software engineering leaders.”

Sustainable Development Goals Action and Awareness Week 2022 is Feb. 28 – March 4. The campus community is invited to participate in a variety of events that increase awareness of and encourage actions that advance the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The SDGs were adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. They address the world’s most monumental challenges, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and peace and justice. Some of the objectives are improved industry, innovation, and infrastructure; affordable and clean energy; and sustainable cities and communities. The SDGs appear by name in the Institute’s strategic plan as long-term goals that should guide teaching, research, and operations.

SDG Action and Awareness Week 2022 will begin with an interactive campus discussion, titled Engaging With the SDGs Across Campus, focusing on how the goals are being realized across the Institute and ways to better work together across disciplines and departments to amplify our impact. President Ángel Cabrera will moderate the discussion with participants from the College of Sciences, Serve-Learn-Sustain, Interdisciplinary Research, and Engineers Without Borders.

Other events during the week include a Tech Dining Sustainability Showcase, a panel on Infrastructure and Sustainability, Changing Relationships: You and Your Aging Parents, Toilet Talk With Shan and Shannon, A Healthy Georgia: Exploring the Impact of the Energy Transition on Public Health, the Association for Sustainable Investment Podcast Club Kickoff, and Engaging With the SDGs to Advance Sustainability in Atlanta. View a full listing of the week’s events.

In Fall 2020, a panel discussion and keynote address by Cabrera introduced the Tech community to the 17 goals. The event covered their relevance to the Institute and emphasized how Georgia Tech can lead the region in implementing and advancing these goals.

“If we are committed to improving the human condition, then we should embrace the SDGs to guide our actions as a university,” Cabrera said when introducing the SDGs.

SDG Action and Awareness Week is part of a larger global effort through the University Global Coalition, whose partners are hosting a variety of online events that are open to all. 

 

This story first appeared in the College of Engineering newsroom.

When Georgia Tech VentureLab program directors Melissa Heffner and Sara Martin Henderson noticed that a disproportionately low number of women were showing up to their entrepreneurial programs, they decided to address the issue with an experiment. The duo knew that students learned best when they felt represented by their instructors, leading them to create an entrepreneurial program geared specifically for women and led by female entrepreneurs and coaches.

The Female Founders program, a five-week cohort experience, debuted at Georgia Tech in the fall of 2020.

“We had a hunch that women in our programming wanted to be surrounded by other like-minded women and coached by female mentors with whom they could relate,” said Heffner. “After the first cohort, we heard that sentiment validated by many of our participants.”

The Program

Female Founders is open to startup teams that are founded or co-founded by women, with 25 chosen for each cohort. The program is open to Georgia Tech students, community teams, and researchers from other institutions in the United States.

The programming assesses the relative strengths of each of the participants and seeks to highlight their advantages as individuals and as part of a team. Cohort members work to cultivate those skills in an array of entrepreneurial environments. Teams also receive feedback on their work from mentors and peers within the program, while attending lectures on topics such as customer discovery and innovation.

Participants may attend the Female Founders Speaker Series each month, where Heffner and Henderson bring in successful women entrepreneurs and leaders, as well as program alumni, to speak about their areas of expertise.

Applications for the next cohort are due by April 7, with each team getting a boost from a successful female entrepreneur with Georgia Tech ties.

The Frank & Eileen Donation

This past fall, Heffner and Henderson were contacted by Audrey McLoghlin, a graduate of Georgia Tech's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and founder of luxury clothing company Frank & Eileen. After receiving B CORP certification in December 2020, McLoghlin’s company pledged to donate $10 million over 10 years to support the female leaders of tomorrow. 

After meeting with Heffner and Henderson, McLoghlin gave a $125,000 gift to the Female Founders program, with the funds directly intended to help female entrepreneurs.

"When COVID put us into quarantine I suddenly found myself with a very rare resource: time. With that extra time, we pursued B CORP certification," McLoghlin said. "Much to my surprise, we received the 2nd highest impact score among globally recognized fashion brands in the US, second only to Patagonia. This inspired me to make a Giving Pledge to support the female leaders of tomorrow."

McLoghlin's gift will allow each of the 25 teams in the next cohort to receive $5,000 to explore their customers’ needs, research the market for their product or service, or travel to meet with potential consumers.

“The donation from Frank & Eileen will change the way that we can engage with our upcoming cohort,” said Henderson. “We are still supporting them through education and community building within the program, but now we have a new opportunity to expand that support.”

In addition to the gift, VentureLab will host McLoghlin for its next Female Founders Speaker Series event on March 30.

"I became an entrepreneur when I was 25 and I had no idea what I was doing!" she said. "Without a mentor or a support network, I definitely learned things the hard way.We were over-the-moon to discover the incredible work that Melissa and Sara were doing by creating and launching the Female Founders Program. I am thrilled to have been able to partner with Georgia Tech and with the Female Founders Program to help support women in their entrepreneurial journey.”

Building From The Beginning

Since launching in 2020, Female Founders has become a larger success than either Heffner or Henderson anticipated. After completing the first cohort, 10 of the original teams joined Heffner and Henderson the next semester for a follow-on program to expand upon what they already learned. Throughout 2021, Heffner and Henderson hosted another two cohorts.

“We want to create a dedicated space in each cohort for women to discuss their experiences in the workplace and as female entrepreneurs, and that is what makes the Female Founders program so unique,” said Henderson. “Our goal is to talk about how each individual, regardless of gender, can navigate these male-dominated spaces with their natural strengths and skills, which is not something the participants would necessarily find in a co-ed program.”

Allyson McKinney, a Ph.D. student in the College of Engineering’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and member of the inaugural cohort, appreciates how the program deepened her understanding of customer discovery and the ways in which her specific technology fits into different markets.

“Female Founders introduced me to an entirely new way of thinking about tech,” said McKinney. “The mentors understand how to combine deep tech ideas with market need, and can then communicate that effectively to a customer. It’s an art, a science, and a business strategy.”

Mourin Jarin, a Ph.D. student in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering who joined McKinney in the first cohort, also highlighted customer discovery as one of the most important things she learned during her time with the program.

“The Female Founders program introduced me to mentors who have helped guide and introduce me to other programs and competitions, both inside Georgia Tech and external,” said Jarin. “I was chosen to participate in the NSF I-Corps program last fall on Melissa’s recommendation, and the women entrepreneurs and mentors I’ve met through the program serve as an invaluable network, providing feedback and support for the start-up efforts in my lab.”

Yana Bebieva, a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Science’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and a member of the fall 2021 group, says the program helped her to improve her active listening and technical communication skills.

“Through the program, I gained confidence with presenting my research, especially to customers and laypeople, and learned how to more effectively communicate a big-picture view of a problem,” said Bebieva.

LaVonda Brown, founder and CEO of EyeGage, earned her MBA from the Scheller College of Business in 2020 after receiving her master’s and Ph.D. from ECE. She participated in the first cohort, then stayed for the follow-up program in the spring. She said Female Founders helped her add various skill sets to her entrepreneurial toolbox, such as customer discovery and effective communication.

“The program gave us a safe space to discuss the biases that female founders face in male-dominated tech environments,” said Brown. “We were given time to talk about issues we were facing in our field, as well as learning healthy ways to respond when facing adversity.”

For Heffner and Henderson, the most rewarding part of building up the Female Founders program was the space they created for women to explore different options for their future.

“In our program, we have so many engineers, inventors, scientists, and leaders seeking the right pathway for their leadership skills,” said Henderson. “The program has given them the autonomy to take their intelligence and capabilities and just run with it to create and innovate.”

Learn more and apply by April 7, 2022.

Georgia Tech will celebrate its 25th annual Earth Day with a 4-day schedule of events. The celebration kicks off Monday, April 18, with a keynote event featuring Vice President for Infrastructure and Sustainability Maria Cimilluca. She will share her inspiring vision for the future of sustainability at Georgia Tech. 

"The Institute's strategic plan asks us to envision an institution that leverages its unmatched scale and resources to address the most crucial challenges of our time,” Cimilluca said. “I see the Institute's sustainability plan as one of the many pathways for collaboration, innovation, and action that will lead us toward transformations in research, applied technologies, culture, and ultimately a more sustainable future."

Georgia Tech first celebrated Earth Day in 1997. For many years the celebration was a one-day, afternoon event. In 2020, it was expanded but held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Held in person last year, the event featured The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design’s Living Building Certification by the International Living Futures Organization, and President Cabrera cut the ribbon for the grand opening of the EcoCommons. These two areas on campus represent Georgia Tech’s commitment to sustainability and serve as living, learning laboratories for students, faculty, and staff.

Event co-chairs Anne Rogers, associate director of the Office of Campus Sustainability, and Emma Brodzik, campus sustainability project manager, have planned a strong lineup of events for this 25th anniversary. From a bike ride with President Cabrera, to a waste audit of the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, to a bird walk and tree planting, this year’s “Down to Earth” event offers many opportunities to celebrate nature and learn about new and innovative ways to protect and preserve our planet.

As is the tradition, this year’s theme and logo were chosen from a student design contest. The winner, Abhinav Thukral, is a graduate student in human and computer interaction. “I think it’s incredibly important to be aware of how our activities affect the planet and to learn sustainable ways to progress as a community,” Thukral said. “Earth Day is essential to reflect on some of the environmental issues we face today and how we might work together to address them.”

Students have often requested to work with campus operations to manifest positive environmental change by engaging with the staff of Infrastructure and Sustainability. This unit is responsible for providing sustainable, safe, and well-maintained campus facilities. For example, recent Carbon Reduction Challenge winners aided in implementing the replacement of existing fluorescent lighting with LED in a wing of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience building. By working with the Building Engineering and Energy Strategies department, this improvement will yield more than 250,000 pounds of carbon dioxide reduction per year. Another area where students are proactive is recycling. When the need for acrylic shields lessened as the intensity of the pandemic waned, student volunteers from the Office of Minority Education assisted campus staff in collecting 800 pounds of acrylic and PVC for recycling.

These types of student-led collaborative efforts are encouraged. If your organization or class would like to collaborate with Infrastructure and Sustainability, use this form to get started.  

As the academic year nears its end, a season of celebration begins. Several students were recognized for excellence this year at the annual Student Honors Celebration on Thursday, April 21. See photos from the event on Flickr.

The following students were recognized at this year's event:

College of Computing

Donald V. Jackson Fellowship
Shoale Badr, Lohith Burra, Raj Sanjay Shah

Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship
Cole Anderson, Tricia Dang, Abrahim Ladha, Pengda Xie

Outstanding Graduate Head Teaching Assistant Award
Rusty Otomo

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Sam Jijina

Outstanding Undergraduate Head Teaching Assistant Award
Mitchell Gacuzana

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award
Anthony Zheng

 

Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

History and Sociology

The Bellon Award
Katie Marchese and Yihua Xu

Modern Languages

Excellence in Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies (ALIS) Award
Ella Tiller

International Affairs

International Affairs Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year
Amelia Rousseau

International Affairs Online Teaching Assistant of the Year
Leslie Dwolatzky

International Affairs Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Brian Stewart

International Affairs Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award
Samuel Ellis

Economics

Outstanding Economics Student Award
Samantha Cameron

Public Policy

Outstanding Public Policy Undergraduate Student Award
Archa Amin, Kathryn Earles, Adam Lederer

 

College of Design

AIA Medal for Academic Excellence
Weston Byerly and Monica Rizk

AICP Outstanding Student Award
Freyja Brandel-Tanis

Alpha Rho Chi Medal
AnLi French

Industrial Designers Society of America Student Merit Award
Sophia De Lurgio

John and Joyce Caddell Student Merit Award
Blaine Allen and Naomi Censullo

Kim Scott Logan Award
Mir Jeffres

Stanley, Love-Stanley, P.C. Award
Breanna Rhoden and Christian Waweru

 

Scheller College of Business

Dow Chemical-P.C. McCutcheon Prize for Outstanding Student Achievement in Business
Cindy Qiu

Jennifer R. and Charles B. Rewis Award for Student Excellence in Accounting
Katherine Fishman and Vicky Yang

John R. Battle Award for Student Excellence
Ben Barnett and Kara Pomerantz

Naresh K. Malhotra Scholarship for Marketing Research
Clara McKay

 

College of Sciences

A. Joyce Nickelson and John C. Sutherland Prize
Sarah Eisenstadt

Cynthia L. Bossart and James Efron Scholarship
Sena Ghobadi

Larry S. O’Hara Fellowship
Jason Tsukahara, Youngho Yoo, Pedro Marquez Zacarias

Mehta Phingbodhipakkiya Undergraduate Memorial Scholarship
Nabojeet Das

Roger M. Wartell, Ph.D., and Stephen E. Brossette, M.D., Ph.D. Award for Multidisciplinary Studies in Biology, Physics, and Mathematics
Lila Nassar

Virginia C. and Herschel V. Clanton Jr. Scholarship
Griffin Wagner

College-Wide Award

Robert A. Pierotti Memorial Scholarship
Holly McCann and Soham Kulkarni

 

College of Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

Aerospace Engineering Outstanding Senior Scholar Award
Anonto Zaman

Donnell W. Dutton Outstanding Senior in Aerospace Engineering Award
Stacey Tian

Biomedical Engineering

G.D. Jain Outstanding Senior in Biomedical Engineering Award
Kevin McCoy

Outstanding Academic Achievement in Biomedical Engineering Award
Adith Srivasta

S.K. Jain Outstanding Research Award in Biomedical Engineering
Mary Kate Gale

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Chair’s Award — Outstanding Chemical and Biomolecular Junior
Ethan Guglielmo

Chair’s Award — Outstanding Chemical and Biomolecular Senior
Christina Whetzel

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Buck Stith Outstanding Junior Award in Civil Engineering
Anthony Sanseverino

Buck Stith Outstanding Junior Award in Environmental Engineering
Aidan Labrozzi

Buck Stith Outstanding Senior Award in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Zoe Zhang

School Chair’s Outstanding Senior Award in Civil Engineering
Thomas Papageorge

School Chair’s Outstanding Senior Award in Environmental Engineering
Johanna Hall

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Research Award
Pradyot Yadav

Outstanding Computer Engineering Senior Award
Zachary Olkin

Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior Award
Katherine Roberts

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Alpha Pi Mu Academic Excellence Award
Oscar Aguilar and Xufei Liu

Evelyn Pennington Outstanding Service Award
Hung Doan and Duncan Siebert

Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Excellence in Leadership Award
Dany Shwayri

Materials Science and Engineering

American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) Student Chapter Award for Graduating Senior
Alp Kulaksizoglu

School of Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Senior Award
Alp Kulaksizoglu and Matthew Kuner

Mechanical Engineering

George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Scholar Award
Andrew Galassi

George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering School Chair’s Award
Joseph Stein

Richard K. Whitehead Jr. Memorial Awards
Julia Binegar, Blake Castleman, Sarah Chen, William Compton, Rebekah Travis

Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award — Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Program, School of Mechanical Engineering
MaryEmma Hughes

College-Wide Awards

College of Engineering (COE) Honors Awards
Evan Beckley, Denzel Carter, Eliezer Zavala Gonzalez, Zhiyi Li, Matthew Liu,
Bain McHale, Kristina Malinowski, Jana Shade, Taryn Trigler, Sophia Ung, Nick Vu

Davidson Family Tau Beta Pi Senior Engineering Award
Zachary Olkin

 

Institute Awards

Alvin M. Ferst Leadership and Entrepreneur Scholarship Award
Adam Lederer and Chris Ozgo

Naugle Communication Center Assistant of the Year Award
Jose Miranda-Hernandez

Georgia Tech Faculty Women’s Club Scholarships
Alexander Emelianov, Kelly Haas, Ben Howard, Parth Parashar, Shiloh Emma Thomas-Wilkinson

Jordan Lockwood Peer Tutor of the Year Award
Emily Nguyen and Raneem Rizvi

Outstanding Learning Assistant Award
Aboubacar Barrie

Outstanding PLUS Leader Award
Jerry Schweiger

Outstanding Student Assistant Award
Vivi Tran

Outstanding Tutor Award
Raymond Copeland

Provost’s Academic Excellence Award
Kathryn Earles, Jocelyn Kavanagh, Emily Salmond, Conner Yurkon

Love Family Foundation Award
Yashvardhan Tomar

Every year, Georgia Tech welcomes students who compete at the Georgia Tech High School Math Competition. Accompanied by teachers, coaches, and parents, the participants represent high schools from around Georgia and nearby states. Around 40 volunteers from among the Georgia Tech faculty, staff and students helped with registration, proctoring, and grading.

Thanks to the hard work of everyone involved, the High School Mathematics competition was a huge success. In 2018, over 250 students from 37 high schools competed in this annual Georgia Tech tradition, dating back to 1958. This year, the 2019 competition challenged over 300 students from 43 high schools to complete the competition’s four exams in such topics as algebra, geometry, combinatorics, number theory, and basic calculus.

The top 59 students from the free response exam were invited to take part in a proofs exam during the afternoon in order to determine the individual winners.

Team Rank

1rst Place: Walton High School Team A

2nd Place: Fulton Science Academy Team A

3rd Place: Chamblee Charter High School Team A, Northview High School Team A (TIE)

5th Place: Asheville Homeschool Team A, South Forsyth High School Team A (TIE)

Individual Winners

1rst Place: Holden Watson (Fulton Science Academy Private School)

2nd Place: Russell Emerine (Walton High School)

3rd Place: Darren Key (Walton High School)

Over forty advanced high school students from across Georgia participated in the Applied Combinatorics Mini-Conference on Saturday November 16, 2019. These students are participating in the Distance Mathematics Program, which offers undergraduate mathematics courses through dual enrollment.

Every year, roughly 450 students enroll in this program to take linear algebra and multivariable calculus course through a distance education program supported by GT Professional Education and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Many of these students are juniors in their high school, and can go on to take more advanced courses while still in high school.

This year, roughly 50 students were able to enroll in an applied combinatorics course, with a member of the School of Math faculty, Prof. Galyna Livshyts as the instructor. The students taking this course this semester were engaged in group research projects, which allowed students from different high schools to interact with each other to gain a deeper understanding of how course concepts could be applied to other disciplines, from robotics to cryptography, to board games. Presentations from Dr. Enid Steinbart and Dr. Cam Tyson also gave these advanced high school students a broader picture of what students can do with a math major, and some of the many programs and degrees that students can enroll in while at Tech. 

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