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  • BLiNQ Blows Up

    BLiNQ Blows Up

    In August 2012, the Gannett Company came calling for BLiNQ Media, a social media engagement company that has managed 600 campaigns for the world’s leading brands since its 2008 founding. The acquisition came a little more than a year after BLiNQ graduated among the 2011 class of Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center, and BLiNQ more

  • Publisher’s Letter: Georgia Tech is on the Move

    I’m sure you noticed the Ramblin’ Wreck on the cover of this issue. The vehicular icon is in many ways the face of Georgia Tech, but it’s also more than just a mascot. The Wreck represents Tech’s history and traditions as well as our fascination with cars and mechanics and engineering. It also represents a more

  • Georgia Tech Auto Show Revs up for 2013

    There’s nothing quite like watching a car’s odometer flip over from a line of nines to a nice, round row of zeros. This spring, the Georgia Tech Auto Show will get to experience something close to that when it celebrates its 10th anniversary on March 30. The Auto Show was founded in 2003 by Sterling more

  • ‘Great Journey’ Lives Up to Its Name

    Here follows a comprehensive list of the modes of transport used during the Alumni 
Travel program’s Great Journey Through Europe, June 27-July 7, 2012. • An airplane—a massive airliner with, thankfully, plenty of legroom—cruising overnight from Atlanta to Zurich, Switzerland. • A motor coach, humming through Switzerland’s pastoral northern cantons, rolling hills dotted with livestock. more

  • Career Fair Attendance Pays Off

    Nathan Davis, Mgt 11, attended last year’s Georgia Tech Alumni Career Fair looking for a position in finance, and he was especially interested in working for Home Depot. “The recruiters for Home Depot were [looking for] Operations and IT majors,” Davis says. “So initially I thought I was out of luck.” But he was wrong. more