{"151941":{"#nid":"151941","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech-Affiliated Projects Among Innovation Fund Winners","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is affiliated with four of this year\u2019s nine Innovation Fund partnership grants, which were announced by Governor Nathan Deal earlier this week. The $19.4 million competitive grant program was created through Georgia\u2019s Race to the Top (RT3) plan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech worked with local education authorities, charter schools, other institutions of higher education, businesses and nonprofit organizations to develop or implement high-impact programs aimed at producing positive outcomes for students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four Georgia Tech-affiliated grant recipients are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EComputational Thinking: 21st Century STEM Problem-Solving Skills for Georgia Students \u2013 Georgia Tech will work with B.E. Mays High School and Tapjoy Inc. to incorporate computational thinking into high school STEM curricula, teaching students to construct models to simulate, visualize and solve real-world problems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDrew Charter School Partnership for Expansion \u2013 Drew Charter School; the Georgia Tech Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (GT CEISMC); the Georgia State University School of Music and others will expand Drew\u2019s highly successful pre-K-8 STEM curriculum to grades 9-12, creating a true cradle-to-college pipeline serving inner-city students.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGreene County STEM TLA Collaborative \u2013 Georgia Tech, Greene County Schools, University of Georgia faculty and Ed Innovation Partners seek to open a charter school in Greene County with the mission of increasing the number of students who choose STEM fields as a career.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERockdale 21st Century Academy of Environmental Studies \u2013 Rockdale County Schools, in partnership with GT CEISMC and Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), will create a STEM-focused middle grades school that provides students with portfolio and project-based learning modules.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWritten by Institute Communications student assistant Vett Vandiver. Portions were taken from the Office of the Governor\u0027s official \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gov.georgia.gov\/00\/press\/detail\/0,2668,165937316_188290503_188284843,00.html\u0022\u003Epress release\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is affiliated with four of this year\u2019s nine Innovation Fund partnership grants, which were announced by Governor Nathan Deal earlier this week. The $19.4 million competitive grant program was created through Georgia\u2019s Race to the Top (RT3) plan.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is affiliated with four of this year\u2019s nine Innovation Fund partnership grants, which were announced by Governor Nathan Deal this week."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2012-09-06 09:00:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:47","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"83641":{"id":"83641","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178095","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:15","changed":"1475894700","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:00"}},"media_ids":["83641"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html?nid=62594","title":"2010 Awards"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html?nid=69268","title":"2011 Awards"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1422","name":"grants"},{"id":"167487","name":"STEM education"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedia Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-2966\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}