Georgia Tech’s Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (SCoRE) is celebrating its 10th anniversary, marking a decade of transformative work that has bridged campus and community to advance sustainability across Atlanta and beyond.

Visionary Beginnings

Launched in 2015 as Serve-Learn-Sustain (SLS), SCoRE aimed to integrate sustainability and community engagement into Georgia Tech’s undergraduate curriculum across all of its colleges. The program came about through a campuswide Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), required for Georgia Tech to retain its accreditation. The designation comes once every 10 years from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).

“SLS was ahead of its time, bringing together sustainability and community engagement to change the culture at Georgia Tech,” observes Ellen Zegura, a three-decade veteran of Georgia Tech who co-founded SLS with Beril Toktay, now executive director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS).

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