{"497301":{"#nid":"497301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Seven GT-AE Students Recognized with AHS Scholarships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeven of the 22 scholarships awarded this month by the Vertical Flight Foundation of the American Helicopter Society were made to students enrolled at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll of the honored students are invited to formally accept their awards at the AHS 71st Annual Forum and Technology Display, to be held in Virginia Beach May 5-7. All together, the scholarships represent about $21,000 in assistance to the aspiring GT-AE engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe awardees include GT-AE undergraduates\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Vaibhav Kumar\u003C\/strong\u003E, who received the Hans and Gil Weichsel Scholarship;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Terry Hei Tsun Ma\u003C\/strong\u003E, who received the George Powell Scholarship; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJ. Siva Movva\u003C\/strong\u003E, who received the Richard M. Carlson Scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech had the single highest number of awardees among the schools represented in the winner\u0027s circle. We\u0027re not surprised.Masters students receiving VFF scholarships included\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAmanda L. Grubb\u003C\/strong\u003E, who received the Charles C. Crawford Scholarship;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMohit Gupta\u003C\/strong\u003E, who received the Don Toler Scholarship;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EKevin Jacobson\u003C\/strong\u003E, who received the Jean Boulet Scholarship; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDhwanil Shukla\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;who received the Alfred L. Wolf Scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s AHS advisor, Dr. Marilyn Smith pointed out that the scholarships are a small indication of the intellectual merit of these students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHigh Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) summer scholarships. Both will work with the US Army AeroFlightDynamics Directorate (AFDD) this summer at NASA Ames.First-year masters students Amanda Grubb and Kevin Richardson were recently tapped by the Department of Defense to receive\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Vertical Flight Foundation was established in 1967 as the philanthropic arm of the American Helicopter Society.\u0026nbsp; The Foundation\u0027s operation is made possible solely through voluntary tax-deductible contributions.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech had the single highest number of awardees among the schools represented in the winner\u0027s circle. We\u0027re not surprised.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seven of the 22 scholarships awarded this month by the Vertical Flight Foundation of the American Helicopter Society were made to students enrolled at Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Aerospace Engineering."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-09 12:39:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:38","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"497311":{"id":"497311","type":"image","title":"Seven GT-AE Students Recognized with AHS Scholarships","body":null,"created":"1455120000","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 16:00:00","changed":"1475895256","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:16","alt":"Seven GT-AE Students Recognized with AHS Scholarships","file":{"fid":"204629","name":"03-31ahs_vff.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/03-31ahs_vff_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/03-31ahs_vff_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":44177,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/03-31ahs_vff_0.jpg?itok=qf541T1Y"}}},"media_ids":["497311"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"129781","name":"AHS"},{"id":"169897","name":"American Helicopter Society"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"167285","name":"scholarship"},{"id":"171660","name":"Vertical Flight Foundation"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}