Grand Challenges Living Learning Community

We know that our world is saturated with rapidly improving technology, yet we still face disparities that demand our attention. The issues facing our world today are not simple fixes. Food waste, chronic homelessness, the refugee crisis, and the mental health stigma will not be solved by one engineer, or one writer, or one politician. Being awesome at multivariable calculus simply isnt enough. Georgia Techs motto is Progress and Service. Here at Grand Challenges we recognize that to most effectively create the progress our world needs, service is not an extracurricular activity, but a leadership style. In the classroom, students begin their yearlong journey towards optimizing teamwork to tackle the worlds Grand Challenges through the W-Model - a broadening and specifying technique that they learn to depend on. With the larger goal of exploring and learning together, students learn how to work with people who are different from themselves, and they begin to develop the skills of ...