A monthly digital newsletter designed to help friends and supporters stay abreast of the positive developments about the Institute that they might have missed on more traditional media outlets.
For as long as there has been a Georgia Tech, students have sung and danced, acted on stage, played all sorts of music, painted and sculpted, and written poetry. And since it became possible, they have also created interactive art, films, and video games. Historically, though, the arts happened on the sidelines — in clubs and extracurricular programs intended to enrich student life, not as part of the academic experience itself.
Georgia Tech students ran away with this year’s National Security Agency Codebreaker Challenge, a competition that tests the country’s best cybersecurity students. Out of 448 colleges and universities, Georgia Tech finished first for the third year in a row. Even better, our friends at the University of North Georgia finished right behind us in second place, making this the fifth consecutive year that one of our schools has earned the top prize!
Georgia Tech is one of America’s top research universities and No. 1 among those without a medical school. This distinction is about far more than bragging rights. Rather, it is a measure of our impact in addressing some of the world’s most consequential challenges and of our central role in driving competitiveness and innovation in our state.
One of the greatest privileges of my job is getting to celebrate with our graduates and their families at Commencement, and I took immense encouragement this past weekend, when we sent off more than 6,300 future leaders.
