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Georgia Tech (officially, Georgia Institute of Technology) began in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology. It is primarily an engineering and science school, though it has programs in related applied disciplines architecture, mathematics, management, computer science, public affairs. It is a public university located in midtown Atlanta, Georgia with about 15,000 students.
Georgia Tech's campus was the site of the athletes' village and a venue for a number of athletic events for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Georgia Tech is also sometimes referred to as the North Avenue Trade School though it was never officially titled such. The name stems from the beginnings of the school and it's near Trade school model which it ran by for many years with students working part of the day in a machine shop, and the other part of the day in the class rooms.
Alumni
Famous graduates/students include:
Gil Amelio electrical engineer, one-time CEO of Apple Computer
Jimmy Carter former U.S. president (attended Georgia Tech, but graduated from United States Naval Academy)
Robert Crippen astronaut
Mike Duke, president and CEO of Wal-Mart (industrial engineering)
Nomar Garciaparra baseball player
Jason Varitek baseball player
Arthur Murray dance instructor and businessman
Sam Nunn former U.S. senator now employed at King & Spalding
Randolph Scott movie star in the 1940s and 1950s
John Portman architect
John Young astronaut
George P. Burdell
Sports
The school's sports teams are variously called the Yellow Jackets, the Ramblin' Wreck, and the Engineers, but the official nickname is Yellow Jackets. They participate in NCAA Division I-A, in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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