The Spring 2025 TechMade Symposium: Elevating Georgia Tech’s Maker Culture brought together students, faculty, and staff to explore research and activities conducted in makerspaces on campus and discuss strategies for elevating the maker culture across Georgia Tech.
We asked Joi Alexander, the director for Georgia Tech’s Wellness Empowerment Center, a few questions about preparing for college and using Tech’s wellness resources. She goes over a few tips and tricks for maintaining well-being.
Of all the buildings he passed on trips as a child from his hometown of Canton, Georgia, to Atlanta, Andrew Solano frequently found himself drawn toward Georgia Tech’s iconic North Avenue Apartments. Gazing at the buildings looming over the Downtown Connector and bearing Tech’s name, Solano often thought about what he could achieve on Tech’s campus.
The Georgia Tech club has donated thousands of handmade hats for premature babies in newborn hospitals.
Founded in 2009, the goal of the studio is to facilitate creativity and give the opportunity for Tech students to “design, build, and play” in a space entirely guided by students. Use of the studio is free for Tech students, faculty, and staff.
In March, NASA opened the astronaut application process for six weeks. More than 8,000 people applied for eight to 12 astronaut-candidate positions. At least three of the applicants were Yellow Jackets.
When now fourth-year civil engineering major Michael Bauby approached high school graduation in 2016, his next steps were uncertain. Instead of college, Bauby found himself excited by a different idea: joining the military to serve and learn practical skills in a new environment.
On Friday, November 1, the founding 10 members of the Lambda Theta Phi fraternity at Georgia Tech were presented. Lambda Theta Phi is the largest Latin fraternity in the United States, though it is open to all interested students who demonstrate the characteristics of the fraternity.
Janet Arvizu-Garcia is a fourth-year international affairs and modern languages student from Toomsboro, Georgia. She is also president of the First-Generation Student Organization. For First-Generation Celebration Week (Nov. 4-8), Arvizu-Garcia answered some questions about her journey to Georgia Tech and offered tips for prospective first-generation students.
For National Transfer Student Week, transfer students and siblings Kiera and James Tran give tips and share details of their own journeys to Georgia Tech.