The Georgia Tech community has proven resilient and compassionate, working together to support and protect one another while contributing to the global fight against COVID-19. Georgia Tech’s initial return-to-campus plan outlines a phased approach that prioritizes employee health and safety while delivering critical services and preparing for the resumption of in-person, campus-based instruction in August. Read more at https://c.gatech.edu/TechMovingForward. | Georgia Tech

This video takes you inside the maker space where Georgia Tech professors and students are building low-cost ventilators using 12-volt motors and resuscitation bags. These devices, which can serve two patients simultaneously, can be produced from inexpensive metal stock and plastic gearing and are intended to help meet the critical needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic. -- https://c.gatech.edu/3be5Iri | Georgia Tech

Last night while you were sleeping, a team of Georgia Tech students worked with NASA and SpaceX to launch a spacecraft into orbit. Here’s the moment they first made contact with the device out in space around 3:47 a.m. this morning. The students are now serving as mission control, driving the spacecraft to the Moon where it will use infrared lasers to search for ice. The presence of water and ice could hold the key to long-term missions to the Moon and beyond and could also be a critical compone