{"642162":{"#nid":"642162","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Students Win \u2018JUMP Into STEM\u2019 for Third Consecutive Year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of undergraduate students in School of Public Policy Assistant Professor Omar Asensio\u0026rsquo;s Data Science for Policy course has won the U.S. Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s 2020-21 JUMP Into STEM competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESarah Canastra, Hunter Hancock, and Lucas Kiefer topped the national competition in the Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings Challenge. Their project was titled \u0026ldquo;Load Shifting with Smart Water Heaters: Conservation Without the Cold Showers.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECanastra is a second-year student in the H. Milton School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Hancock is a third-year computer science student, and Keifer is a fourth-year computer science student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir win marks the third consecutive win for Georgia Tech in the competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are thrilled by this string of successes. It is a testament to the innovative capacity of our students and the strength of our interdisciplinary approach to education and research,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/omar-isaac-asensio\u0022\u003EAsensio\u003C\/a\u003E said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn all, six cross-disciplinary Georgia Tech teams were among the 48 teams and more than 1,000 students from 29 colleges and universities in this year\u0026rsquo;s competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJUMP into STEM (\u0026ldquo;JUMP\u0026rdquo; stands for Join the discussion, Unveil innovation, Make connections, and Promote tech-to-market) is an online building science competition sponsored by the Energy Department. It is open to undergraduate and graduate students at U.S. colleges and universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWinners of the competition receive a paid summer internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) or the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech students who \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/news\/item\/621296\/ivan-allen-college-students-win-jump-stem-competition\u0022\u003Ewon the 2019-2020 competition\u003C\/a\u003E recently started their internships.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECatherine Moore, a fourth-year public policy major, and Taylor Sparacello, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major, are interning at Oak Ridge National Lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKira O\u0026rsquo;Hare, a third-year student in ISyE, and Cade Lawson, a fourth-year economics major, completed internships at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). Sarah Tinsley, a fourth-year economics major, also interned at ORNL.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Economics\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E are both units of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of undergraduate students in School of Public Policy Assistant Professor Omar Asensio\u0026rsquo;s Data Science for Policy course has won the U.S. Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s 2020-21 JUMP Into STEM competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team of undergraduate students in School of Public Policy Assistant Professor Omar Asensio\u2019s Data Science for Policy course has won the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s 2020-21 JUMP Into STEM competition."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2020-12-16 16:29:44","changed_gmt":"2020-12-16 20:49:35","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"642160":{"id":"642160","type":"image","title":"JUMP into STEM 2020-21 Team","body":null,"created":"1608136033","gmt_created":"2020-12-16 16:27:13","changed":"1608136033","gmt_changed":"2020-12-16 16:27:13","alt":"Sarah Canastra, Hunter Hancock, and Lucas Kiefer ","file":{"fid":"243957","name":"jump student 3-up.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jump%20student%203-up.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jump%20student%203-up.png","mime":"image\/png","size":639088,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jump%20student%203-up.png?itok=bw6cLeWN"}},"639033":{"id":"639033","type":"image","title":"Omar Isaac Asensio, Assistant Professor ","body":null,"created":"1600090403","gmt_created":"2020-09-14 13:33:23","changed":"1600090403","gmt_changed":"2020-09-14 13:33:23","alt":"Omar Isaac Asensio, Assistant Professor\u00a0","file":{"fid":"242970","name":"Omar Asensio-Assistant Professor-v2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Omar%20Asensio-Assistant%20Professor-v2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Omar%20Asensio-Assistant%20Professor-v2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":104509,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Omar%20Asensio-Assistant%20Professor-v2.jpg?itok=4aPO6MNQ"}}},"media_ids":["642160","639033"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Pearson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmichael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}