{"464871":{"#nid":"464871","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GTFWC Encourages Children of Tech Employees  to Apply for Scholarships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Faculty Women\u2019s Club (GTFWC) will award five scholarships of up to $1,500 each for the 2016-17 academic year. Applicants must be Georgia Tech undergraduates and have a parent or guardian as a permanent Tech employee. Applicants also must have completed at least one full semester at Tech; have an overall GPA of at least 2.75; and write an essay describing his or her academic plans, involvement in extracurricular activities, and reasons for needing financial assistance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the past 24 years, the GTFWC has awarded 148 scholarships totaling $118,550 to support undergraduates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am so happy, as the scholarship chair, to be part of continuing this great opportunity,\u201d said Christina Choi, assistant professor, School of Industrial Design.\u0026nbsp; \u201cIt is satisfying to see the real effects it can have, not just to meet the students\u2019 immediate needs, but also to increase the level of confidence in their work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe deadline to apply is January 21, 2016, and the scholarship committee will make its selections in February.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor application details, or for information on how to contribute to the scholarship fund endowment, see \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtfwc.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.gtfwc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.gtfwc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Faculty Women\u2019s Club will award five scholarships to children of permanent Tech employees.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Faculty Women\u2019s Club will award five scholarships to children of permanent Tech employees."}],"uid":"27713","created_gmt":"2015-11-04 08:57:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:54","author":"Victor Rogers","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtfwc.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Faculty Women\u0027s Club"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11652","name":"Faculty Women\u0027s Club"},{"id":"10350","name":"GTFWC"},{"id":"167285","name":"scholarship"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:victor.rogers@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EVictor Rogers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-6398\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["victor.rogers@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}