{"367311":{"#nid":"367311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Home Depot opens technology center at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERoll out the \u201corange\u201d carpet for Home Depot, which has officially opened its first-of-its-kind, university-based research and development center at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Home Depot Technology Center, located at Tech Square, creates an innovation partnership between Tech and the world\u2019s largest home improvement retailer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat partnership lets Atlanta-based Home Depot tap into Tech\u2019s research expertise, and more critically, the deep talent pool of students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHome Depot and Tech students will collaborate on new ideas and strategic initiatives for the company.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI cannot tell you what a great opportunity this is for us to be working with some of the best young minds here at Georgia Tech,\u201d said Matt Carey, Home Depot\u2019s chief information officer. \u201cGeorgia Tech provides us with a unique opportunity to get fresh, innovative ideas and forward, out-of-the-box thinking from students who will be shaping and developing our world of the future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor students such as Preston Turner, a third-year computer science major, the Home Depot Technology Center provides an opportunity to foster innovative ideas. It also gives him a chance to take an entrepreneurial approach in a real-world setting by working with a Fortune 50 company.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHome Depot is smart enough to realize that we have one of the best colleges in the nation sitting right here, full of a ton of bright minds getting one of the best educations out there,\u201d Turner said. \u201cHaving us here and paying us for the work that we do is really driving new technologies at Home Depot. There are so many innovative things at Georgia Tech \u2014 we can take that knowledge and bring it here to the technology center.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt also helps fulfill part of Tech\u2019s strategic vision to ensure that innovation and entrepreneurship become fundamental characteristics of every graduate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis partnership is about co-innovation to create new opportunities and to solve problems, which in turn helps establish enhanced market competitiveness,\u201d\u0026nbsp;said Stephen E. Cross, Tech\u2019s executive vice president for research. \u201cOur students will benefit tremendously as the partnership will provide valuable experiential learning opportunities in ongoing campus innovation venues such as Capstone Design and the Convergence Challenge in direct support of Home Depot\u2019s Technology Center.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHome Depot is only the latest major company to create a university-based research center at Tech Square, which the Association of University Research Parks \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2014\/12\/05\/tech-square-named-outstanding-research-park\u0022\u003Enamed the 2014 Outstanding Research Park\u003C\/a\u003E. The company joins a number of corporate juggernauts that have come to Tech Square \u2014 and Georgia Tech\u2019s expertise \u2014 to create their own innovation and research centers. They include AT\u0026amp;T Mobility, Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/amplifier.gatech.edu\/articles\/2014\/11\/future-manufacturing\u0022\u003EThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2014 By P\u00e9ralte C. 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