{"619107":{"#nid":"619107","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mock Trial Makes School History at Regionals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast month, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Mock Trial team made history in the regional round of the American Mock Trial Association tournament: Three Tech teams notched bids to the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) for the first time in school history.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Jackson, Mississippi, the A and B teams took home second and seventh, respectively, with the A team garnering eight wins and the B team collecting five and a half. Two members of the A and B teams were named Outstanding Witnesses, while three others were named Outstanding Attorneys. The C team also walked away with five and a half wins, finishing fifth at a different regional tournament in Orlando, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince only two teams per school are allowed to compete in the ORCS, two of the three squads of Yellow Jackets will compete in the event in Decatur March 16\u0026ndash;17.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is the host school for the upcoming tournament, which occurs on the second weekend of ORCS competitions and will be held at the DeKalb County Courthouse. If either team does well enough for a bid this time, they will advance to Nationals, where they finished eighth last year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarah Jane Lowentritt, a civil engineering major, is a member of Mock Trial\u0026rsquo;s C team. While her team won\u0026rsquo;t be competing in the ORCS, the significance of the regionals results was not lost on her.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Getting 100 percent of our teams a bid at regionals shows how our program is getting stronger,\u0026rdquo; she said. She noted that five of the C team\u0026rsquo;s nine members are first-year students, which goes to show \u0026ldquo;how [the team is] improving in both recruiting new members and helping new members improve throughout the year.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Mock Trial team is continuing a trend of excellence that was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2018\/11\/georgia-tech-mock-trial-team-nation-best\/614610\u0022\u003Edocumented by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E back in November. See a full, interactive feature on Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/2AoXdJ0\u0022\u003ECourtroom Stars\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo see how the team does this weekend, follow the group on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GTMockTrial\/\u0022\u003EFacebook\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gtmocktrial\/\u0022\u003EInstagram\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe team notched 3 bids to the ORCS tournament for the first time ever.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The team notched 3 bids to the ORCS tournament for the first time ever."}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2019-03-11 18:16:05","changed_gmt":"2019-03-11 21:02:05","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614609":{"id":"614609","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Mock Trial Team","body":null,"created":"1543267593","gmt_created":"2018-11-26 21:26:33","changed":"1543332961","gmt_changed":"2018-11-27 15:36:01","alt":"Georgia Tech student Katie Burdette listens to a judge\u0027s question during a mock trial tournament at the DeKalb County, Georgia, courthouse in October.","file":{"fid":"233993","name":"RS20_2018-10 mock trial tournament-6-scr.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS20_2018-10%20mock%20trial%20tournament-6-scr.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS20_2018-10%20mock%20trial%20tournament-6-scr.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":226183,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RS20_2018-10%20mock%20trial%20tournament-6-scr.jpg?itok=oUtShvuv"}}},"media_ids":["614609"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.georgiatechmocktrial.com\/","title":"Mock Trial Website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171829","name":"mock trial"},{"id":"180756","name":"regionals competition"},{"id":"180757","name":"Opening Round Championship Series"}],"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:stucomm@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}