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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: July 12, 2016
Summer is a great time to read for fun. At the Horizons at Georgia Tech program, students get the special treat of someone—a “Mystery Reader”—reading aloud to them. By hearing someone read with expression, they experience the joy of books in an entirely different way.
On June 22, 2016, College of Sciences Dean Paul M. Goldbart read to a rising fourth-grade class. Goldbart said he loved reading to “an inquisitive, smart, funny, engaged group.” After apologizing for his pronunciation of the U.S. President’s name – “It just doesn’t sound right with a British accent!”—he said he was excited to share with them Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, by Barack Obama.
Horizons at Georgia Tech is a summer learning program for students of Centennial Academy and Charles R. Drew Charter School. Many students in these two Atlanta public schools come from low-income families. Horizons at Georgia Tech offers these students academic, cultural, and recreational experiences during the summer.
The program is held at Georgia Tech and is facilitated by Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC), a unit of the College of Sciences.
Inviting “Mystery Readers” is one of Horizons’ signature activities. In addition to Goldbart, other readers this summer included Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson and CEISMIC Executive Director Lizanne DeStefano.
Goldbart said he was pleased with the book the Horizons team chose “because of its moving connections to Atlanta, to science, and much, much more. He added: “I very much appreciate the invitation from Horizons team, and I continue to be impressed and inspired by the outstanding impact they have on so many young Atlantans.”
