In 1882 the Georgia State Legislature authorized a committee led by Harris to visit the Northeast to see firsthand how technology schools worked They were impressed by the polytechnic educational models developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science (now Worcester Polytechnic Institute) the committee recommended adapting the Worcester model which stressed a combination of "theory and practice" the "practice" component including student employment and production of consumer items to generate revenue for the school. . Hapeville pop 6,373 Main article: Music of Georgia (U.S state), Pre-steam 2.3 Central Campus The Georgia Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Atlantic Coast Conference) Georgia State Panthers and Georgia Southern Eagles (Sun Belt Conference) are Georgia's NCAA Division I FBS football teams having won multiple national championships between them the Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have a historical rivalry in college football known as Clean Old-Fashioned Hate and the Georgia State Panthers and the Georgia Southern Eagles have recently developed their own rivalry. Kennesaw State Atlanta also plays host to one Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race each year at Atlanta Motor Speedway, In 1996 right-handed pitcher John Smoltz received his only Cy Young Award. 6.8 Georgia Sports Hall of Fame 6.2 National protected areas Shrubby plants include blackberry horsechestnut sumac and sometimes hawthorn Virginia creeper poison ivy and briar are common vines the Confederate yellow daisy is a wildflower native only to the area around Stone Mountain; Atlanta's Georgia Dome hosted Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994 and Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000 the Georgia Dome hosted the NCAA Final Four Men's Basketball National Championship in 2002 2007 and 2013 it hosted WWE's WrestleMania XXVII in 2011 an event which set an attendance record of 71,617 the dome was also the venue of the annual Chick-fil-A Bowl post-season college football games Since 2017 they have been held at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium along with the FIRST World Championships.
Tech's fight song "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" is known worldwide First published in the 1908 Blue Print it was adapted from an old drinking song ("Son of a Gambolier") and embellished with trumpet flourishes by Frank Roman Then-Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sang the song together when they met in Moscow in 1958 to reduce the tension between them As the story goes Nixon did not know any Russian songs but Khrushchev knew that one American song as it had been sung on the Ed Sullivan Show. . . . 42/6 73/23 Snellville pop 18,242, Motive power Map of elevations in Georgia. Georgia Tech maintains close ties to the industrial world Many of these connections are made through Georgia Tech's cooperative education and internship programs Georgia Tech's Division of Professional Practice (DoPP) established in 1912 as the Georgia Institute of Technology Cooperative Division operates the largest and fourth-oldest cooperative education program in the United States and is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education the DoPP is charged with providing opportunities for students to gain real-world employment experience through four programs each targeting a different body of students the Undergraduate Cooperative Education Program is a five-year program in which undergraduate students alternating between semesters of formal instruction at Georgia Tech and semesters of full-time employment with their employers. 9 External links The state has fourteen other cities with populations above 50,000 (based on 2017 U.S Census estimates) in descending order of size they are Augusta Columbus Macon Savannah Athens Sandy Springs Roswell Johns Creek Warner Robins Albany Alpharetta Marietta Smyrna and Valdosta, 8 Legacy Domestic-only carriers from Atlanta:, (1,041,423) 72 Patrick Weigel Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. 112 188 The CNN Center in Atlanta Atlanta VA Medical Center.
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