{"687332":{"#nid":"687332","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Celebrating a Decade of Impact: The Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (SCoRE) Marks 10 Years of Community-Engaged Sustainability at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVisionary Beginnings\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaunched in 2015 as Serve-Learn-Sustain (SLS), SCoRE aimed to integrate sustainability and community engagement into Georgia Tech\u2019s 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).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSLS was ahead of its time, bringing together sustainability and community engagement to change the culture at Georgia Tech,\u201d 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).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scre.research.gatech.edu\/node\/3250\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead more \u00bb\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s 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.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s 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."}],"uid":"36757","created_gmt":"2026-01-14 21:29:52","changed_gmt":"2026-01-14 21:31:01","author":"ychernet3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678994":{"id":"678994","type":"image","title":"vipwawaclassroom--5.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Building for Equity and Sustainability undergraduate research class celebrates the opening of the outdoor classroom that they designed and built with the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance in Bush Mountain (April 14, 2025). \u0026nbsp;Credit: SCoRE\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1768426201","gmt_created":"2026-01-14 21:30:01","changed":"1768426201","gmt_changed":"2026-01-14 21:30:01","alt":"The Building for Equity and Sustainability undergraduate research class celebrates the opening of the outdoor classroom that they designed and built with the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance in Bush Mountain (April 14, 2025). ","file":{"fid":"263103","name":"vipwawaclassroom--5.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/01\/14\/vipwawaclassroom--5.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/01\/14\/vipwawaclassroom--5.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":16687967,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/01\/14\/vipwawaclassroom--5.jpg?itok=hm3gbnly"}}},"media_ids":["678994"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}