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Parch Is Redrawing Architectural Collaboration

When Sabah Mohammed moved to Atlanta to build her career in architecture, she expected to be designing buildings, not drowning in paper. Yet in her job, she found herself lugging dozens of floor plan printouts onto construction sites. “I was working on a project, and we were struggling to collaborate; I’d have to print these giant sheets of paper just to share updates with my teammates and clients,” Mohammed recalls. The process felt inefficient and archaic. This frustration would soon spark an entrepreneurial journey.

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NASA @ GT: Bringing Space Technology Down to Earth

Atlanta’s tech ecosystem is getting a lift from NASA’s Technology Transfer University program, which lets Georgia Tech students turn real NASA patents into market-ready ideas. “Integrating NASA patents into our technology entrepreneurship course was a tremendous success,” says Professor Greg Mihalik.

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Georgia Tech Hosts Its First AI Career Fair

On November 17, 2025, Georgia Tech hosted its first AI Career Fair. Throughout the inaugural event, the Georgia Tech Exhibition Hall was a hive of activity as over 500 students, interested in artificial intelligence (AI)-related career opportunities, engaged with nearly 30 employers to explore career paths, gain industry insights, and build professional networks. “This is an amazing event to have these opportunities to meet these employers in person. I have always gotten interviews from meeting people in person,” said a Georgia Tech student and computer science major.

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How a Georgia Tech Student-Founded Startup Is Empowering Innovators

In the startup or innovation space, things move lightning fast. In fact, waiting just a week for the next iteration of your customized circuit board to be printed could be a significant setback. “Startups move fast, and innovators need their circuit boards as quickly as possible. Waiting weeks for a specialized board isn’t an option. Convexity Electronics’ goal is to be more local and convenient,” shares Calla Scotch, Founder and Lead Technical Developer.

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Celebrating ATDC’s Class of 2025 Graduation and 45 Years of Impact

A record of 17 startups, focused on a diverse range of topics from healthcare and logistics to artificial intelligence and robotics, graduated from the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)’s program on October 21. The event was held at the historic Biltmore Georgian Ballroom, located on the ground floor of the new Biltmore Innovation Center in Tech Square, and celebrated the 2025 ATDC Graduating Class and ATDC’s 45th Anniversary.

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A Lens on Food Waste: How Raccoon Eyes Tackles the Problem with Vision AI

Pairing a lifelong interest in cooking, especially the gathering with friends and family around the table, with financial responsibility is what inspired Ivan Zou, the co-founder of Raccoon Eyes, to dig into the problem of food waste. Ivan shares, “When I started seeing how much food was being not eaten by students and wasted in kitchens, I was inspired to find a solution at the intersection of the kitchen and consumer that could help avoid both waste and economic cost.”

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Teaching Voice AI to Listen Better

Imagine asking a virtual assistant technology to play your favorite song, only to have a different one start playing. Or providing a verbal command to a robotic tool, and it completes another action. Now imagine you are at the doctor’s office, where accuracy and precision are essential and lifesaving, and virtual assistant technology fails to understand or transcribe the correct information based on your unique voice, medical condition, accent, first language, tone, and more.

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Catching “Entrepreneur’s Disease”: A Sit Down with ATDC’s John Avery

“We hope to get everyone to catch ‘entrepreneur’s disease,’” says John Avery, referring to the contagious excitement of entrepreneurship. As director of Georgia Tech’s ATDC, Avery has helped cultivate a collaborative environment in Tech Square where mentors and founders spark ideas, share advice, and turn big concepts into startups.

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