{"240131":{"#nid":"240131","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT students participate in ITU Global Youth Summit in Costa Rica","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGT\u0027s five student delegation has just returned from the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.itu.int\/en\/bynd2015\/Pages\/default.aspx\u0022\u003EITU Global Youth Summit in Costa Rica\u003C\/a\u003E. They were a formidable force throughout the meeting\u0027s hackathon and they have brought home the gold and sliver: their app came in First in the education category and Second overall. Their project tackled Millennium Development Goal #2, creating an integrated web\/mobile phone system to help inform policy makers about primary education student enrollment levels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe summit brought industry, government, and international organization leaders together to interact with youth from around the world as peers and co-creators of the future of ICT. The GT team attended, and impacted, many other components of the Summit and represented Georgia Tech well: to the President of Costa Rica, First Lady of Nigeria, Secretary General of the ITU, and other VIPs of note, and in media interviews with the likes of CNN.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Georgia Tech team was made up of Deana Brown (PhD student, IC), Nekabari Goka (MS student, INTA), Amanda Meng (PhD student, INTA), Alex Stelea (Sophomore, CoC), and Stephanie Su (Sophomore, CoC).\u0026nbsp;Congratulations to these amazing Georgia Tech students!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"GT students develop award winner apps"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe BYND2015 Global Youth Summit is a platform for young people to lend their voice and influence decisions at the United Nations on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EFuture We Want\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYoung people from around the world have gathered in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica to shape the sustainable development agenda in the post-2015 era. Along with some 700 participants meeting in San Jos\u00e9, over 3000 young people around the world are logging in virtually to contribute their ideas from 43 hubs or workshops in 25 different countries using a unique crowd-sourcing platform and other social media channels.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GT students participate in ITU Global Youth Summit in Costa Rica"}],"uid":"27752","created_gmt":"2013-09-25 09:17:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:56","author":"Maggie Miller","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1297","name":"Office of International Education"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"42921","name":"Exhibitions"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"234","name":"Costa Rica"},{"id":"74771","name":"Global Leadership"},{"id":"74761","name":"ITU Global Youth Summit"}],"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=\u0022http:\/\/www.itu.int\/en\/bynd2015\/Pages\/default.aspx\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.itu.int\/en\/bynd2015\/Pages\/default.aspx\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}