{"663087":{"#nid":"663087","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Expanding Access While Providing a Professional Work Experience","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has been a home away from home for Abraham Pizano for five years \u0026mdash; even when he was in high school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPizano went to Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School about 2.5 miles from Georgia Tech. The school enrolls more than 500 students from families who couldn\u0026rsquo;t otherwise pay for a private, college preparatory education. While families contribute a portion of the $16,400 cost of education, the school fundraises approximately $5,000 per student. The remaining 60% of the cost is earned by the students, who work at area businesses as part of Cristo Rey\u0026rsquo;s Corporate Work Study Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his sophomore year of high school, Pizano landed at Georgia Tech and worked in the College of Engineering\u0026rsquo;s dean\u0026rsquo;s office. He had never been to campus and wasn\u0026rsquo;t yet thinking of college, although he hoped to one day study engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I didn\u0026rsquo;t know much at all about Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said Pizano, who grew up in Atlanta. \u0026ldquo;My only goal was to make some connections and do the best I could. That year, I set my heart and mind on Tech.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPizano loved Georgia Tech so much that he returned to the dean\u0026rsquo;s office to work his senior year, then applied and was accepted as a student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnce a 15-year-old sitting in Tech Tower, uncertain about what to do for college, Pizano is now a third-year civil engineering student with a focus on transportation systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I came here in high school, loved the people, and kept coming back,\u0026rdquo; said Pizano, who stayed on in the dean\u0026rsquo;s office as a student assistant in 2020 and 2021. \u0026ldquo;My job in the dean\u0026rsquo;s office gave me a kickstart to my current success at Tech.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPizano said the work-study experience at Georgia Tech also taught him the pillars of working in a professional environment, an opportunity that isn\u0026rsquo;t typically available to high school students. It\u0026rsquo;s one of Cristo Rey\u0026rsquo;s main goals, with Georgia Tech playing a supporting role since the school was founded eight years ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/expanding-access-while-providing-professional-work-experience\u0022\u003ERead more about the how Georgia Tech is expanding access through its partnership with Cristo Rey.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"A partnership with an Atlanta high school allows Georgia Tech to give students a glimpse of campus life as they work in an office"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs part of partnership with Atlanta\u0026#39;s Cristo Rey High School, students work one day a week on campus. In exchange for the work, a Georgia Tech alumnus pays a portion of the students\u0026#39; high school tuition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A partnership with an Atlanta high school allows Georgia Tech to give students a glimpse of campus life as they work in an office"}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2022-11-10 20:14:17","changed_gmt":"2022-11-14 15:47:24","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"663081":{"id":"663081","type":"image","title":"Cristo Rey students","body":null,"created":"1668106329","gmt_created":"2022-11-10 18:52:09","changed":"1668106376","gmt_changed":"2022-11-10 18:52:56","alt":"two students walking across campus","file":{"fid":"251043","name":"_MG_4786(edited).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/_MG_4786%28edited%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/_MG_4786%28edited%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1212545,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/_MG_4786%28edited%29.jpg?itok=M1c2hIJI"}}},"media_ids":["663081"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":[],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}