The Excellence Awards Banquet is held every year by Georgia Tech's College of Engineering to celebrate the academic excellence and leadership of its undergraduate female students. This event brings together students, alumni, corporate partners, and Institute leaders to recognize the accomplishments of female engineering students who have achieved "high honors" status by earning a cumulative GPA of 3.35 or above. As a testimony to the excellence of CoE's female undergraduate students, more than 500 women, representing nearly a third of its female students, qualified for recognition at the event this spring. Ninety-nine of the students are majoring in ChBE. The banquet also provides a platform to recognize student and faculty leaders through Student Mentoring Awards, Faculty Mentoring Awards, and Teaching Excellence Awards, which are given annually.

The overwhelming support of many companies for the banquet reflects a genuine commitment to the success and engagement of women engineers as they develop into future leaders. These corporate sponsors are committed to increasing the number of women in the technical, engineering, and scientific fields. The active role of corporate sponsors gives them the opportunity to positively impact the careers of the best and brightest women students at GT. The banquet is made possible by a grant from the Kimberly Clark Corporation.

This year, 88 ChBE undergraduate women qualified for recognition by receiving a GPA of 3.35 or above. These students are:

Samantha Collins Anderson, Joselyn Baety, Jennifer Botwin, Felicity Brower, Courtney Brown, Viktoriya Buchko, Jessica Ong Calkins, Olivia Campos, Brittney Caristinos, Birgitta Caspersen, Alma Castaneda, Candice Castellino, Sarah Jia-Hwa Chang, Lauren Cheplen, Katherine Croft, Whitney Davis, Kristina Deliso, Caitlin East, Stephanie England, Shreya Erramilli, Yichen Fang, Ashley Farmer, Karissa Fleming, Iva Franjkic, Laura Cullen Frisbie, Erika Gemzer, Anne Guzzardi, Megan Harris, Holly Hicks, Pamela Jackson, Laura Janke, Emily Jennings, Eunhye Jeong, Erica Johnson, Hye Jin Kim, Nisha Mary Kurian, Bomy Lee Chung, Stephanie Lohr, Kristen Long, Amy McDaniel, Kathrine McFadden, Sarah McKibben, Shazia Mohammad, Danielle Murray, Ashley Newton, Cintia Nojima, Mona Himanshu Parikh, Sohyun Park, Jalpa Shantilal Patel, Krupa R. Patel, Nalini D. Patel, Huong Van Pham, Jacey Planteen, Gina Polimeni, Evelina Ponizhaylo, Anita Prakash, Kaycee Quarles, Jacqueline Rand, Alexandra Reavis, Alana Reynolds, Angela Rice, Carrie Ripberger, Erin Rives, Allison Roberts, Lauren Russell, Georgina Schaefer, Sydney Shaffer, Megan Shenstone, Kierston Shill, Amanda Sills, Arlyne Bellamin Simon, Kendele Snodgrass, Stephanie Springfield, Olesya Sukhareva, Jessica Swearengen, Jemilat Bamidele Taiwo, Anne Douglas Talley, Katherine Taylor, Mongquy Vuong To, Kathryn Reid Tramonte, Trinh Phuong Vo, Kellie Walker, Caroline Whitaker, Allison Wing, Meng-Chuan Wu, Hua-Hsiang C. Yu, Merin Zachariah, and Roshu Mary Zachariah.

Additionally, 11 outstanding ChBE students received $1000 scholarships at the banquet. Air Products presented awards to Courtney Brown and Erin Rives; Alcoa to Karissa Fleming; Dow to Bomy Lee Chung; IBM to Ashley Newton; Kimberly Clark to Lauren Cheplen, Stephanie Lohr, and Carrie Ripberger; Milliken to Sarah McKibben; and Shell to Erika Gemzer and Jemilat Bamidele Taiwo.

ChBE is proud of its best and brightest students and congratulates these 99 women for being some of the best of the best.