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Atlanta, GA | Posted: May 3, 2019
Rebecca Keane
Director of Communications
rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu
404.894.1720
Summary Sentence:
As winners, Economics students Sarah Tinsley and Cade Lawson received internship offers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Full Summary:
Cade Lawson and Sarah Tinsley, two undergraduate students in the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Economics, have been named winners of the JUMP into STEM national competition in Golden, Colorado for their projects on smart/connected communities and building energy performance, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Sarah Tinsley and Cade Lawson at JUMP into STEMCade Lawson and Sarah Tinsley, two undergraduate students in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Economics, have been named winners of the JUMP into STEM national competition in Golden, Colorado for their projects on smart/connected communities and building energy performance.
As winners of the final round of the competition, which took place from April 12 – 14, Lawson and Tinsley received internship offers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), respectively. ORNL and the U.S. Department of Energy sponsored the competition as well.
The economics students represented two interdisciplinary teams of Georgia Tech undergraduates who competed in JUMP into STEM as a key component of School of Public Policy Assistant Professor Omar Asensio’s Data Science and Public Policy course (PUBP 4803).
Asensio’s students were organized into two teams, both of which submitted research proposals for the Round 1 topic, entitled “Connecting the Right Data at the Right Time to Improve Residential Building Performance.” Both teams submitted research designs with the aim of identifying and designing approaches to influence homeowner decisions to optimize their energy use.
The student teams, their associated majors, and their proposal titles are listed below:
The School of Economics and School of Public Policy are both units of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
