TEAM Buzz comes back for an encore

TEAM Buzz comes back for an encore

By Fahd Patel
Campus Life Staff
ATLANTA
November 6, 1998

TEAM Buzz, Georgia Tech's annual campus-wide philanthropy event, will take place on November 14, with an estimated 2,000-plus participants.

Now in its second year, the community service program consists of 34 projects which students can sign up for through the Internet.

"We tried to make registration easier to understand this year," said Caroline Freeman, the student involvement chair of the TEAM Buzz steering committee.

The only other major change this year was the shift to having a larger groups with more participants per group rather than several smaller groups.

Each project is managed by up to three coordinators. Sophomore Dacia Foster was a project coordinator last year and will be one this year. Last year her project she helped organize a gigantic thrift store.

"There were literally clothes stacked to the ceiling," she said.

In Reynolds Towers, the oldest African-American community in Atlanta, TEAM Buzz will be sending 300 volunteers to plant 750 trees and repaint three houses. Other activities include playing basketball with Down's Syndrome patients, participating in the Strong Legs run, and planting 10 enormous trees at 8th Street and Hemphill Avenue.

TEAM Buzz will start off at 8 a.m. with a kick-off rally, which will include an opening address by President G. Wayne Clough as well as bagels and coffee. The service projects start at 9 a.m. and will continue until 12:30 p.m.; there will be a party afterwards that will go on 2:30 p.m.

The creation of a campus-wide philanthropy event was the work of Tony Chan, who was instrumental in the organization of the first TEAM Buzz last year.

"The idea was to bring everyone together doing community service," Steering Committee chair Melissa Byrd explained. Last year, over 1,100 people participated in TEAM Buzz.

There may be some changes to TEAM Buzz next year with the conversion to semesters. In the future, the event may take place earlier in the year due to the less-than-pleasant November weather. Last year the weather was not conducive to outdoor activity because of rain and the cold temperatures.

There is a possibility that the program will take place every semester, but that has not been decided as of yet.

Copyright © 1998 by Gregory S. Scherrer, Editor and by the Student Publications Board

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