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CodeMash 2015 - Kalahari Resort, Sandusky, Ohio.
January 7-9, 2015
CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies, and technology trends in a variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby, Python and PHP.
MCDS Makers' Lab Tech Challenge teams compete at the Tech Museum's annual competition. This year titled: Rock the Ravine
DisneyToon Studios' Director of Technology Mike Miller and Systems Manager Bhavesh Lad discuss technical issues in the hallway.
Mahdiar Edraki ('19), Nick Schaar ('20), and Chris Knecht (Graduate Student graduating in '19) work together to take apart a lawn mower engine at the Tech Tear Down in the Innovation Space on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Photo by Erica Lowenkron.
Tech Cocktail was happy to leave 2013 with a bang as we brought in a handful of fantastic speakers to our Tech Cocktail Week Sessions event on December 12th. The event was sponsored by Local Motors. The evening was filled with inspiring stories and lessons from the following entrepreneurs: Baratunde Thurston (CEO / Hashtagger-In-Chief at Cultivated Wit), Brian Janosch, (Creative Director at Cultivated Wit), Craig Cannon (Product Director at Cultivated Wit), Michael Chasen (Founder & CEO of SocialRadar and Co-founder & Former CEO of Blackboard) and Jay Rogers (Co-Founder & CEO of Local Motors).
To learn more from Baratunde's talk see here: goo.gl/XBo3Od
The High Techs perform during a media timeout of the Virginia Tech - Winthrop Game at Cassell Coliseum.
Georgia Tech’s official mascot is a 1930 Ford Model A sport coupe, painted GT gold to match the Yellow Jackets’ color scheme. The old jalopy whips around the field at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, with Georgia Tech cheerleaders and GT’s stingy mascot, Buzz, clinging tightly.
The current Ramblin’ Wreck debuted in 1961, though it is not the first Ford on campus that earned the moniker. Floyd Field, a professor and dean at Georgia Tech in the early 1900s, owned an original 1916 Ford Model T that was infamous on campus. The student newspaper, the Technique, dubbed it a Ramblin’ Wreck in 1927, and the name stuck.
A few years later, the Technique sponsored a series of road races from Atlanta to Athens, Ga. The “Flying Flivver” races were hazardous at best and illegal at worst, so Field (who was a participant in these races) had the idea to change it to a parade instead. Field led the first parade in his own Ramblin’ Wreck in 1932, and the Ramblin’ Wreck Parade still runs during each homecoming weekend, featuring a veritable “Wacky Races” of wheeled contraptions, classic cars and what-have-you.
Eventually, the school realized how closely students identified with a car mascot and purchased one from a local airline pilot in 1961. The 1930 Ford Cabriolet sport coupe debuted that year and was restored again in 1982 by a Georgia Tech alum who just so happened to manage a nearby Ford assembly plant.
So what about the name? The “Ramblin’ Wreck From Georgia Tech” is the school’s official fight song and was adapted from an old English drinking song called “The Son of a Gambolier.”
The song retains much of the original barroom flavor, as the lyrics boast of engineering prowess and whiskey consumption with a distinctly Georgian bent. The song entered school lore in 1905 and manages to encapsulate Georgia Tech’s engineering past AND a hatred of rival University of Georgia in one nifty tune.
The song got its start as Georgia Tech’s fight song in the late 1880s, when Tech defeated Georgia on the baseball diamond. The current arrangement dates to former Georgia Tech bandmaster Frank Roman, who committed it to paper in 1911. It quickly became famous -- so famous that President Richard Nixon and Soviet Union leader Nikita Krushchev sang a few verses to bond during a tense Cold War era meeting in Moscow. If a song can penetrate the Iron Curtain, it has to be catchy.
Since then, the phrase “Ramblin’ Wreck” has become synonymous with Georgia Tech sports, in the same way “Rocky Top” means Tennessee and “Death Valley” means LSU. If you find yourself riding the Ramblin’ Wreck, take your whiskey clear and say “to Hell!” with Georgia. You’ll fit right in.
www.si.com/college/2014/11/04/georgia-tech-traditions-ram...