{"65889":{"#nid":"65889","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech eDemocracy Project Wins CASE Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Campus\nCommunity Partnership Foundation (CCPF) honored a group of Tech students with\nits Community Academic Service Entrepreneur (CASE) grant for their proposal of\nProject Redistrict.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project\u2019s\nobjective is to generate public awareness of political issues related to voting\ndistricts, proposing a mathematical algorithm to automatically redistrict\nregions using census data. Project Redistrict, a project of Georgia Tech\neDemocracy, has the long-term goal of constructing an intuitive website that\nredistricts areas based on parameters such as population equality, density and\ncontiguity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe team worked\nvery hard throughout the term and is very excited to be awarded this grant,\u201d\nsaid Sheetul Hassan, a third-year materials science and engineering student and\nteam leader for the project. \u201cThe grant money will be used primarily for\nimprovement of our innovation through community outreach programs and in\nmuch-needed software. This is a great honor and we look forward to the future\nsuccess of this project.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam members\ninclude industrial and systems engineering students Charlotte Huang, Swetha\nKrishnakumar and Xiaotong Yang; computer science student Himani Manglani; and\npublic policy student Stephanie Noble. Rich DeMillo, distinguished professor in\nthe College of Computing, served as faculty advisor. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe honor\nincludes $1,000 for project implementation, $500 in student scholarships and a\n$1,000 stipend to DeMillo. The team will be presented with certificates of\nmerit at Georgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson\u2019s office on May 5.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Campus\nCommunity Partnership Foundation (CCPF) honored a group of Tech students with\nits CASE grant.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Campus Community Partnership Foundation (CCPF) honored a group of Tech students with its CASE grant."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2011-05-02 08:32:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:38","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/edemocracy.vip.gatech.edu\/projectredistrict\/","title":"Project Redistrict"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.c2pf.org\/","title":"Campus Community Partnership Foundation"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.servicebook.org\/content\/view\/303\/124\/","title":"About the CASE grant"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13007","name":"campus community partner foundation"},{"id":"13008","name":"community academic service entrepreneur grant"},{"id":"1422","name":"grants"}],"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=\u0022mailto:kristen.shaw@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Shaw\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}