This month, September 15 – October 15 marks National Hispanic Heritage Month. To celebrate, Georgia Tech, with the support of the Hispanic Initiative (OHI), is hosting a series of events. They include a soccer/football tournament — a mini World Cup — and a trivia night focused on Georgia Tech’s Hispanic and Latino cultures. Engineers and scientists will host virtual storytime sessions with K-5 students in the metro Atlanta area.
Georgia Tech’s overall Hispanic/Latinx student population continues to grow. This year’s cohort of first-year and transfer students had a record number of Hispanic students. Total enrollment is 3,600, an increase of 1,500 over the past five years.
About half of them (1,719) are studying engineering. Many are involved in student organizations that support and welcome Hispanic and Latinx students.
“To me, the best way to describe the Hispanic community on campus is one big family,” said Amy Ogando, a civil engineering student and external vice president of the Association of Hispanic Professional Engineers at Georgia Tech. (SHPE) “We are very driven and hard-working people who love to learn about new cultures and share our backgrounds. It’s very inspiring to meet people from very different places, from different worlds with different ambitions, dreams and work. From Buenos Aires to Madrid, our identity is where we talk, study and He represents us in a fun way. Being a Latina and a member of SHPE, I am proud to know that I have a great support group on this campus that has been with me throughout Georgia Tech.”
