{"200591":{"#nid":"200591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Colatrella\u0027s GEMS Club Receives Educational Partnership Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECarol Colatrella\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate dean for graduate studies at the \u003Cstrong\u003EIvan Allen College\u003C\/strong\u003E and professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, is part of a team that has received the 2013 Educational Partnership Award offered through the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EColatrella codirects Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS) Club with Mary Lynn Realff, associate professor in the School of Materials Sciences and Engineering. The Club is a joint initiative sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST) and Inman Middle School. Members of the educational partnership include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMehran D\u0027Souza (ISYE), student\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENatalie Payne (BME), student\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMercedes Shannon (MGT), student\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELu Ling (BME,) student\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAndrea Del Risco (ISYE), student\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPaula Herrema, Inman Middle School Principal\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECandice Price, 7th grade science teacher\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow in its fifth year of operation, GEMS attracts more than 40 girls in grades six through eight to its sessions. Club members meet after school for one and a half hours each week to engage in hands-on experiments and leadership activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Educational Partnership Award is an annual Georgia Tech award of $7,500 that recognizes genuine and substantial partnerships between the faculty and students of Georgia Tech and the K-12 community. GEMS Club will accept the award at the annual staff and faculty awards luncheon in April.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECarol Colatrella\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate dean for graduate studies at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EIvan Allen College\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, is part of a team that has received the 2013 Educational Partnership Award offered through the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2013-03-19 12:20:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:51","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"190091":{"id":"190091","type":"image","title":"Carol Colatrella","body":null,"created":"1449179848","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:57:28","changed":"1475894838","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:18","alt":"Carol Colatrella","file":{"fid":"196249","name":"img_12.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_12_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_12_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2977,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_12_0.jpg?itok=FA5DleA3"}}},"media_ids":["190091"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cetl.gatech.edu\/faculty\/educationalpartnership","title":"CETL Educational Partnership Award"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1601","name":"CETL"},{"id":"3672","name":"WST"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}