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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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Join us Wednesday, March 16, at 4:30 pm, LeCraw Auditorium in the College of Management, for a special presentation of Students Who IMPACT: Ideas2SERVE Finals and Awards Ceremony, with Master of Ceremonies Kathleen Kurre, CEO, TechBridge.
Finalist teams will present their three minutes pitches and answer questions from the audience. A panel of judges will decide the winner and runner-ups, and the audience will vote for their favorite to win the People's Choice Award.
Join us to witness the best of Tech's social entrepreneurs and celebrate our students who Dare to Care!
Door prize raffle at half-time.
Finalist teams: ArkFab, Sustainable Solar Sanitation System, Urban RePeel, Camp Phoenix, One Tab, Yucca, Incinerate. For a description of their projects, and video pitch visit the I2S page.
More about the I2S Competition
In its third year the Ideas to SERVE (Socially and Enviromentally Responsible Value Enhancements) Competition is for current Georgia Tech students and recent alumni who have a very early stage product/service idea or venture concept that is focused on creating a better world. All great ventures and organizations begin with great ideas. The I2S is a competition of ideas where creativity, imagination, and technology are applied to solving community, social, and enviromental issues.
I2S Final Judges:
Jerome A. Atkinson - Principal, Turning Point Private Capital
Karen Robinson Cope - Managing Partner, Atlanta Technology Advisors
Arun Gore - Managing Director, Gray Ghost Ventures
Penelope McPhee - President, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
John C. Staton Jr. - Retired Partner, King&Spalding, LLP
2011 Sponsors:
Gray Ghost Ventures
MaRC Sustainable Design & Manufacturing
Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
College of Management
Tedd Munchak Chair in Entrepreneurship
Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship
