{"83211":{"#nid":"83211","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nearly 2,000 Volunteers Expected for TEAM Buzz, Community Service Day","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis Saturday, approximately 1,900 Georgia Tech students, faculty, staff and alumni will lend a helping hand through 58 volunteer and community service projects around Atlanta and in selected cities across the country. It\u0027s all part of TEAM Buzz, Georgia Tech\u0027s student-run volunteer service day. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think it\u0027s important to give back,\u0022 said Tech alumnus Mike Mattias. \u0022We\u0027re so blessed with what we have. It\u0027s nice to step back and help people who didn\u0027t have the same opportunities we did.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMattias has been volunteering with TEAM Buzz for the past five years. Even though he graduated from Tech in 2001, he still comes back every year to do a house painting project. This year, he\u0027ll be working with a group of volunteers at Charis Community Housing to paint the exterior of a house. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EComing on the heels of Hands On Atlanta Day, TEAM Buzz gives participants a chance to extend the generosity many of them practiced in one of Hands On Atlanta\u0027s 200 community projects earlier this month. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENot content to just help out Atlantans, alumni of Georgia Tech are heading up volunteer service projects in cities like Washington, D.C., Houston, San Francisco and Dallas. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year marks the seventh year TEAM Buzz has sprung into action. The project was started by then-student Tony Chan, who gathered 1,200 volunteers for 30 projects in the first year. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the projects this year are volunteering at elementary school carnivals, painting and gardening projects at several Boys\u0027 and Girls\u0027 Clubs, repairing bikes to donate to kids and preparing meals for the elderly and people with medical disabilities. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor many students, TEAM Buzz marks the first time they\u0027ve done community service. Their experience at this event often leads them to make volunteering a regular activity, said Katie Twist, steering committee chair of TEAM Buzz. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027d never really done community service before I came to college. It\u0027s really great to know you\u0027re helping someone and it\u0027s great to be around people who value the same thing,\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince participating in her first volunteer event at TEAM Buzz four years ago, Twist has participated in a number of community service activities, including Hands on Atlanta Day. Twist hopes this year\u0027s projects spur others to do the same.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Approximately 1,900 Georgia Tech students, faculty, staff and alumni will lend a helping hand through 58 volunteer and community service projects around Atlanta and in selected cities across the country. It\u0027s all part of TEAM Buzz, Georgia Tech\u0027s student-run volunteer service day.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-10-29 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:02","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-10-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-10-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"83221":{"id":"83221","type":"image","title":"Buzz Volunteers at TEAM Buzz","body":null,"created":"1449178095","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:15","changed":"1475894700","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:00"}},"media_ids":["83221"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.teambuzz.org\/","title":"TEAM Buzz"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"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\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}