{"620303":{"#nid":"620303","#data":{"type":"news","title":"SST Funds Students to Attend MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/sports\u0022\u003ESports, Society, and Technology (SST)\u0026nbsp;minor\u003C\/a\u003E, housed in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s School of History and Sociology, offers\u0026nbsp;innovative teaching experiences\u0026nbsp;to students from a variety of disciplines, which includes learning opportunities\u0026nbsp;both in and outside of the classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMorissa Chen and Ilesh Jain, two SST and Industrial Engineering undergraduates, recently benefited from the program\u0026rsquo;s support for real-world learning\u0026nbsp;after funding from Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/smith_1\u0022\u003EJohnny Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;allowed them to attend\u0026nbsp;the influential \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sloansportsconference.com\/\u0022\u003EMIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As an Industrial Engineering student, I saw the conference as an opportunity to better understand the current use of Analytics in the industry and gauge the future direction of this field,\u0026rdquo; Chen siad. \u0026ldquo;Having watched videos of panels from the conference in past years, I knew that this conference attracted industry leaders and covered a breadth of exciting topics.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFunding for the conference was made available through Smith\u0026rsquo;s Julius C. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Shaw Professorship, which provides support for research and a variety of activities connected with the SST undergraduate minor, including expanded internship opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChen and Jain were able to attend important panels, such as a conversation from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver who spoke about the importance of athlete mental health, and a conversation with influential writers David Epstein and Malcolm Gladwell who spoke about their conflicting theories on the nature vs. nurture influence on sports performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I knew by attending this conference, I would be able to hear about and meet people from all disciplines, ranging from analytics (of course) to social justice, sports performance to sports entrepreneurship, and just about everything in between,\u0026rdquo; Jain said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the students attended professional networking opportunities such as a resume review workshop and a women\u0026rsquo;s networking lunch.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was a privilege to have Dr. Smith sponsor this experience as it was very insightful and inspiring... While Georgia Tech has no shortage of career advancement resources on campus, it was definitely valuable to get career advice specific to the sports industry,\u0026rdquo; Chen said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference is only one of many unique student learning activities offered in the SST program, which exposes students to sports in the context of historical and contemporary culture in order to help them become well-informed leaders in the sports and health industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of History and Sociology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMorissa Chen and Ilesh Jain, two Industrial Engineering undergraduates enrolled in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/sports\u0022\u003E Sports, Society, and Technology (SST)\u003C\/a\u003E minor, recently attended the influential \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sloansportsconference.com\/\u0022\u003EMIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;thanks to funding from Julius C. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Shaw Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/smith_1\u0022\u003EJohnny Smith\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Morissa Chen and Ilesh Jain, two students enrolled in the Sports, Society, and Technology program, were funded by Professor Johnny Smith."}],"uid":"33693","created_gmt":"2019-04-10 19:24:07","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Kayleigh Haskin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620226":{"id":"620226","type":"image","title":"Morissa Chen and Ilesh Jain","body":null,"created":"1554827390","gmt_created":"2019-04-09 16:29:50","changed":"1554827390","gmt_changed":"2019-04-09 16:29:50","alt":"A portrait photo of Ilesh Jain and Morissa Chen","file":{"fid":"236147","name":"20190302_1809_Web_Crop.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20190302_1809_Web_Crop.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20190302_1809_Web_Crop.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":193514,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/20190302_1809_Web_Crop.jpg?itok=nOxn8aFs"}}},"media_ids":["620226"],"groups":[],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"168974","name":"SST"},{"id":"180958","name":"ilesh jain"},{"id":"180959","name":"morissa chen"},{"id":"129451","name":"Johnny Smith"},{"id":"168508","name":"School of History and Sociology"},{"id":"179499","name":"Sports Society and Technology Program"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane - Director of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}