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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 25, 2013
GT's five student delegation has just returned from the ITU Global Youth Summit in Costa Rica. They were a formidable force throughout the meeting's hackathon and they have brought home the gold and sliver: their app came in First in the education category and Second overall. Their project tackled Millennium Development Goal #2, creating an integrated web/mobile phone system to help inform policy makers about primary education student enrollment levels.
The summit brought industry, government, and international organization leaders together to interact with youth from around the world as peers and co-creators of the future of ICT. The GT team attended, and impacted, many other components of the Summit and represented Georgia Tech well: to the President of Costa Rica, First Lady of Nigeria, Secretary General of the ITU, and other VIPs of note, and in media interviews with the likes of CNN.
The Georgia Tech team was made up of Deana Brown (PhD student, IC), Nekabari Goka (MS student, INTA), Amanda Meng (PhD student, INTA), Alex Stelea (Sophomore, CoC), and Stephanie Su (Sophomore, CoC). Congratulations to these amazing Georgia Tech students!
