{"57593":{"#nid":"57593","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Care packages on a big scale","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E - April 11, 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohn Bartholdi is sponsoring a race from metro Atlanta to Africa in which there will be no losers, but many winners. He and his of logistics and systems engineering are sending two 40-foot shipping containers to  via two routes to see which gets there first... Bartholdi had considered sending empty containers for the sake of the exercise, but realized that he and his students might as well fill them with something Ghanians need... Decatur-based charity MedShare International, had just spoken on campus about how MedShare sends surgical instruments and sponges, hospital beds, wheelchairs, sanitizers, syringes and crutches to needy places around the globe. \u0022I thought, \u0027Wow! This is great,\u0027\u0022 Bartholdi said. \u0022As long as we are sending stuff around the world, we ought to send something that would do somebody some good.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/living\/content\/living\/stories\/2008\/04\/10\/Goodworks_0411.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ajc.com\/living\/content\/living\/stories\/2008\/04\/10\/Goodworks_0411.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2008-04-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:29","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-04-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}