{"661586":{"#nid":"661586","#data":{"type":"news","title":"In America, With an Eye on Home","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen Gideon Ndeh was in grade school, he would come home, drop his backpack, and begin a five-mile walk. He and his brother would head to the family farm, where the boys would harvest crops to pay for school fees, books, and household essentials.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter working for a few hours and walking five miles back home, they would crawl into their grandmother\u0026rsquo;s uncomfortable bed in the middle of the kitchen. The brothers would fall asleep inhaling smoke from the smoldering, burning wood that cooked dinner.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Although we grew up poor, I gained several precious memories that humbled me and helped me realize the importance of building a community,\u0026rdquo; Ndeh said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELife changed in 2008 when Ndeh was 7 years old. His father, Michael, won a visa lottery to leave their village in western Cameroon and moved his family to Maryland the next year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENdeh would eventually enroll at Morehouse College, participating in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceed.gatech.edu\/dual-degrees-engineering-program-ddep\u0022\u003EDual Degree Engineering Program (DDEP)\u003C\/a\u003E, which allowed him to attend any of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Engineering programs after three years at Morehouse.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I didn\u0026rsquo;t even know that Morehouse partnered with Georgia Tech until I started classes,\u0026rdquo; Ndeh said. \u0026ldquo;And engineering wasn\u0026rsquo;t the plan. When I was filling out some forms about my major, I couldn\u0026rsquo;t find \u0026lsquo;undecided,\u0026rsquo; so I clicked \u0026lsquo;engineering.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/america-eye-home\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead Gideon\u0026#39;s full story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDean\u0026rsquo;s Scholar Gideon Ndeh can financially support himself while assisting his family in war-torn Cameroon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dean\u2019s Scholar Gideon Ndeh can financially support himself while assisting his family in war-torn Cameroon"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-09-27 20:25:34","changed_gmt":"2022-09-27 20:25:34","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-09-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-09-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"661585":{"id":"661585","type":"image","title":"Gideon Ndeh","body":null,"created":"1664310159","gmt_created":"2022-09-27 20:22:39","changed":"1664310159","gmt_changed":"2022-09-27 20:22:39","alt":"Dean\u0027s Scholar Gideon Ndeh on the Georgia Tech campus in front of the Trailblazers statue at Harrison Square","file":{"fid":"250605","name":"DSP-Gideon-Ndeh-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSP-Gideon-Ndeh-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSP-Gideon-Ndeh-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":856359,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSP-Gideon-Ndeh-t.jpg?itok=dvvxZ_wM"}}},"media_ids":["661585"],"groups":[{"id":"551651","name":"Center for Engineering Education and Diversity (CEED)"},{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJason Maderer\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}