{"60622":{"#nid":"60622","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Receives Astronaut Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe very first Space Shuttle pilot, Robert Crippen, will present\nGeorgia Tech Junior Joy Buolamwini with a $10,000 scholarship from the\nAstronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and\nceremony, Friday, September 3 at 11:00 a.m. in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Georgia Tech Campus. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award ceremony will coincide with a presentation by Crippen,\na four flight veteran, who has logged more than 565 hours in space, orbited the\nearth 374 times and traveled more than 9.4 million miles. The lecture is free\nand open to the public. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is my honor to be presenting Joy with the Astronaut\nScholarship Foundation Award,\u201d said Crippen, \u201cJoy is a bright, up-and-coming\nforerunner in the field of computer science and she will be one of the many\nleaders who will keep the United States at the leading edge of breakthrough\ntechnology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBuolamwini is majoring in computer science and holds a 4.0\nGPA. She has worked on a data tracking system for Google-sponsored research and\nis interested in developing affordable mobile technology to propel economic\ndevelopment in West African nations. Buolamwini is also interested in health\ncare applications of computer technology. She plans to earn a Ph.D. in computer\nscience and pursue \u201cresearch with an entrepreneurial spirit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Astronaut Scholarship is the largest monetary award\ngiven in the United States to science and engineering undergraduate students\nbased solely on merit. Twenty of these prestigious awards were dispersed this\nyear through ASF to outstanding college students majoring in science,\nengineering or math. More than $3 million in scholarships have been awarded to\ndate with $204,000 to Georgia Tech students alone. These well-rounded students\nexhibit motivation, imagination and intellectual daring, as well as exceptional\nperformance, both in and out of the classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECrippen was selected\nas a NASA Astronaut in September 1969. After serving as a member of the Astronaut\nsupport crew for Skylab 2,3 and 4, he was named Pilot for the first Shuttle \u003Cem\u003EColumbia\u003C\/em\u003E, STS-1, and served as the\nspacecraft commander for STS-7, STS-41C and STS-41G. STS-1 was the first\nspacecraft to launch with wings using solid rocket boosters, as well as the first\nwinged reentry vehicle to return to a conventional runway landing. Crippen, a retired Navy captain, later served as\ndirector, NSTS Operations, at NASA\u0027s Kennedy Space Center, and as KSC director\nfrom 1992 to January 1995. He then served as president of Thiokol Aerospace\nGroup in Utah and now resides in Florida. Crippen serves on the Board of\nDirectors for the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation and was inducted into the\nU.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on November 10, 2001. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Astronaut Scholarship Foundation is a non-profit\norganization established by the Mercury Astronauts in 1984. Its goal is to aid\nthe United States in retaining its world leadership in science and technology\nby providing scholarships for exceptional college students pursuing degrees in\nthese fields. Today, more than 80 Astronauts from the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab,\nSpace Shuttle and Space Station programs have joined in this educational\nendeavor.\u0026nbsp; For more information,\ncall 321-455-7015 or log on to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.astronautscholarship.org\/\u0022\u003Ewww.AstronautScholarship.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe very first Space Shuttle pilot, Robert Crippen, will present\nGeorgia Tech Junior Joy Buolamwini with a $10,000 scholarship from the\nAstronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and\nceremony, Friday, September 3 at 11:00 a.m. in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Georgia Tech Campus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CoC Junior Joy Buolamwini will receive the award from the first Space Shuttle pilot, Robert Crippen."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2010-08-26 09:37:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:19","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"60621":{"id":"60621","type":"image","title":"Joy Buolamwini","body":null,"created":"1449176281","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:01","changed":"1475894525","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:05","alt":"Joy Buolamwini","file":{"fid":"191176","name":"10C2092-P1-145.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10C2092-P1-145_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10C2092-P1-145_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1253604,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/10C2092-P1-145_0.jpg?itok=LR-tnC4A"}}},"media_ids":["60621"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4482","name":"Astronaut Scholarship"},{"id":"10479","name":"Joy Buolamwini"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStefany Sanders\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-312-6620\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["stefany@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}