While I despise Georgia Tech with every fabric of my being, following the loss to them in Georgia’s final game of the season, I do have to give them props for setting up a course to allow 17 students to do something good for humanity leveraging their skills in the IT industry. The Computing for Good (C4G) course, resulted in a teaching web portal in one of the lower income schools in Atlanta, a database for United Way staffers to allocate and search for beds in Altanta without having to call around and tool to help monitor blood in African countries.
Given that a lot can be done with a little (give me a slow, old computer and no software and I’ll give you a sparkling course management system for those lower income schools – gotta’ love Open Source) it is great to see someone making a difference (even if they are from Georgia Tech).