{"65728":{"#nid":"65728","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Alumni Association Awards More Than $20,000 to Campus Recycling","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecently, members of the Georgia Tech Student Alumni Association (SAA) presented the Office of Solid Waste Management and Recycling with more than $20,000 through its SAA Gift to Tech program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur office is honored to have been thought of so highly by the students that they would support our initiatives monetarily,\u201d said Cindy Jackson, manager of campus recycling. \u201cI will be working closely with the Student Alumni Association to develop plans on how the money will be used to expand the recycling program here at Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMembership in SAA requires an annual donation of $10, with $5 going to Tech\u2019s unrestricted annual fund, Roll Call, through the Student Foundation, and the other $5 going toward the SAA Gift to Tech. The Gift to Tech is a monetary award that supports a project selected by students that enhances campus and makes an impact on the entire Tech community. In support of SAA\u2019s efforts, the Georgia Tech Alumni Association matched the first 1,000 $10 donations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESAA leadership chose five campus projects for students to vote on this year including campus recycling, campus safety efforts, the Alumni Association\u2019s Living History program, a commemorative bench at the G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons and funding support to underwrite the tradition of handing out Rat Caps at Freshman Convocation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents were invited to vote for where they would like to see the money used for this year\u2019s gift. Between the time voting opened in August and closed in March, students cast more than 2,075 votes. After spring break, the top three choices were voted on by SAA members. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe gift was presented to the Office of Solid Waste Management and Recycling on April 19 in the BioTech Courtyard. SAA members also made a formal announcement of the gift at Earth Day on April 22. Along with other SAA awards, Jackson and her staff will receive a banner signed by SAA members to celebrate and commemorate the first-annual SAA Gift to Tech at the Up with the White and Gold Awards on April 28.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecently,\nmembers of the Georgia Tech Student Alumni Association (SAA) presented the\nOffice of Solid Waste Management and Recycling with more than $20,000 through its SAA Gift to Tech program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Organization elected to go green with its inaugural Gift to Tech program."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2011-04-22 16:17:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:38","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63794":{"id":"63794","type":"image","title":"Game Day Recycling Program","body":null,"created":"1449176708","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:08","changed":"1475894561","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:41","alt":"Game Day Recycling Program","file":{"fid":"191880","name":"GDR.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GDR_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GDR_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":794512,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/GDR_1.jpg?itok=QxGiupKv"}}},"media_ids":["63794"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtsaa.com\/","title":"Student Alumni Association"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.recycle.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Solid Waste Management and Recycling"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"12901","name":"Office of Solid Waste Management and Recycling"},{"id":"1153","name":"recycling"},{"id":"169556","name":"SAA Gift to Tech"},{"id":"167406","name":"Student Alumni Association"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtsaa.com\/\u0022\u003EStudent Alumni Association\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-7343\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}