{"591183":{"#nid":"591183","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Johnson and Kelley\u2019s Sidewalk Scholars Wins Best Public Policy Capstone Design","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Tuesday, April 25, at the McCamish Pavilion, five Public Policy student teams competed in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s spring 2017 Capstone Design expo. The award for Best Public Policy Project went to Reagan Johnson and Maggie Kelley for their project \u003Cem\u003ESidewalk Scholars: Safe Routes to School Program Analysis.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe largest expo to date, the 2017 Expo showcased the work of 1,222 graduating seniors, working in 242 teams on client projects to solve real world problems. The students came from public policy, seven engineering schools, architecture, and industrial design. The teams presented their work to industry representatives, faculty, staff, and students,\u0026nbsp;who judged best project awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor \u003Cem\u003ESidewalk Scholars\u003C\/em\u003E, Johnson and Kelley interviewed participants in TAG Academy\u0026rsquo;s safe routes to school program looking at what worked and how the program could be improved.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe other public policy teams were:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECreative Cribs\u003C\/em\u003E, looking at affordable housing for artists for the Atlanta Regional Commission \u0026ndash; Megan Haley, Hether Johnston, Charlotte Kaye, Helen Petersen and Sana Surani\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStudents on the Move \u0026ndash; Making Decatur Greater\u003C\/em\u003E, comparing academic achievement, attendance and discipline for students transferring into the Decatur school district with students who began in the district \u0026ndash; Mahdi Al Husseini, Alice Barsky, Len Berg, Ethan Eloguin, Kyle Norton.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGT Treecycling\u003C\/em\u003E, analyzing how GT could make better use of the trees it cuts down \u0026ndash; Ana de Give, Christina Herd, Sean Hodell, Leo Ludwig, Hunter Tredway\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESafe Routes and Social Capital\u003C\/em\u003E, interviewed\u0026nbsp;participants in Whitefoord Elementary\u0026rsquo;s safe routes to school program to see what worked and how the program could be improved.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Tuesday, April 25 at the McCamish Pavilion, five Public Policy student teams competed in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s spring 2017 Capstone Design expo. The award for Best Public Policy Project went to Reagan Johnson and Maggie Kelley for their project \u003Cem\u003ESidewalk Scholars: Safe Routes to School Program Analysis.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Reagan Johnson and Maggie Kelley won the Best Public Policy Project for their project Sidewalk Scholars: Safe Routes to School Program Analysis at Georgia Tech\u2019s spring 2017 Capstone Design Expo."}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2017-05-01 22:47:40","changed_gmt":"2017-05-02 18:05:14","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591182":{"id":"591182","type":"image","title":"Public Policy 2017 Capstone Design Winners","body":null,"created":"1493678537","gmt_created":"2017-05-01 22:42:17","changed":"1493678537","gmt_changed":"2017-05-01 22:42:17","alt":"Georgia Tech Public Policy 2017 Capstone Design Winners Reagan Johnson and Maggie Kelley","file":{"fid":"225258","name":"PPCapstone2017.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PPCapstone2017.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PPCapstone2017.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":523962,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PPCapstone2017.jpg?itok=J7zOVP6a"}}},"media_ids":["591182"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"174293","name":"Public Policy Winners 2017 Capstone"},{"id":"174291","name":"Reagan Johnson"},{"id":"174292","name":"Maggie Kelley"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}