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Happy 2022! It’s January and that means it’s time to renew your ARCS Foundation membership.

You likely received an email with membership renewal information around the 13^th of January. Please be on the lookout! The email includes easy-to-follow step-by-step membership renewal instructions and an opportunity to pay online so you don’t even...

Once again, our Atlanta ARCS Light was revealed via zoom at our General Membership meeting held on January 12^th.  She is Deede Stephenson!

After joining the chapter in 2004, Deede quickly said ‘yes’ when asked to be the Scholar’s Co-Chair in 2005, then the Scholar’s Chair the next year. ...

Hopefully, we are all healthy heading into 2022. 2021 was an interesting year in many ways. The ups and downs of our health dictated much of our days. Most meetings are still being held online, but we have learned to adapt.

The Scholar Awards Celebration (SAC) was a huge success and...

The highly anticipated virtual program of the 2021 Scholar Awards Celebration launched as scheduled on Thursday, November 18, at 8:15am, to a live audience of over 200 viewers via unique email addresses. Our production team reported an additional 54 logins after the live event, later that day, for a total of...

The General Membership Meeting on January 12, 2022 was originally planned as an in-person luncheon at the Capital City Club in Brookhaven. Due to a surge in Omicron, we thought it prudent to cancel the in-person meeting, forgo our luncheon, and organize the meeting over Zoom.

Approximately 65 members participated in...

It is hard to believe that as of January 2022, we are 2/3 of the way through our strategic plan – it seems like yesterday we were filling out surveys and holding meetings to create our mission, vision, and plan. In hindsight, our timing was quite fortuitous; in the throes of...

The attached suggested reading list for the Pittsburgh Alchemy - From Steel to Digital Environments retreat may hold some treasures for you.  There is nothing more satisfying than stepping into a town having some background knowledge of your environment!

PITTSBURGH ALCHEMY

FROM STEEL TO DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS

ARCS FOUNDATION, ATLANTA CHAPTER RETREAT...

ARCS Atlanta Scholar Alum Sarah Cannon was featured in a Georgia Tech article.  Read "Simple Robots, Smart Algorithms: Meet the BoBbots" here. 

Chanel Frazier, Managing Director at BlackRock, is the Global Head of Business Strategy for the Portfolio Management Group (PMG) and the Head of the Atlanta Innovation Hub. It was an honor for ARCS Atlanta to highlight Ms. Frazier during our 2021 Scholar Awards Celebration.  She is a superb representative of our...

Because it is the right thing to do…

The line between what is necessary and what is right falls in a different place for each of us.  I am constantly impressed that ARCS members so often do things that are far beyond what is necessary.  They do them because it is...