News Briefs

Apply for 2007 Astronaut award

The Astronaut Foundation has announced a 10,000 dollar scholarship for the 2007-2008 academic year to be awarded to a Tech student in a science or engineering major.

The student must be a junior, a senior, or in a master's program, and a U.S. citizen. The Foundation is looking for a bright and motivated student who is also creative and imaginative enough to charter into the unknown with their field the way the original Mercury Seven astronauts did when they embarked on the first U.S. manned space mission in 1958.

Wanting to keep the U.S. as the world leader in science and technology, they established the Mercury Seven Foundation in 1984 to provide scholarships to students in all science and technology fields, and later changed their name in 1995 to allow all U.S. astronauts to assist in their fund-raising efforts.

To date they have awarded over 2.3 million dollars in scholarships to 211 students. The application materials must be submitted by February 26 and may be downloaded at psp.gatech.edu/astro/

I-Movie Fest ceremony Feb. 8

The finale for Campus I-Movie Fest will be Thursday Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Ferst Center for the Arts. The Atlanta Grand Finale will be Wednesday Feb. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Atlanta Symphony Hall. The Tech movie making process took place during Jan. 16-22.

Six other universities in the Atlanta area also competed in the Campus Movie Fest including Georgia State, Emory, University of Ga., Spelman College, Morehouse, and Clark Atlanta.