Category: awards

Georgia Tech’s Internship Lodging Program Featured in WSJ

We’re thrilled to announce that The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Internship Lodging Program has been featured in the Wall Street Journal! This summer, Georgia Tech is hosting 650 interns, generating a record $1.6 million in revenue.

Our program provides affordable housing for interns during their internships, ensuring they have a comfortable and supportive living environment. Additionally, we are excited to announce that we are recruiting for a new manager of the Internship Lodging Program.

This recognition underscores the program’s success in preparing students for their careers. We’re proud of this achievement and excited for the future!

Nov 14, 2014 | Atlanta, GA

Georgia Tech was named 2014’s Best College or University to Hold a Meeting or Event by Unique Venues, a marketing service that pairs one-of-a-kind venues with meeting planners looking for spaces out of the ordinary. Conference Services at Georgia Tech provides that unique opportunity for planners seeking residential accommodations and event space for summer residential conferences and camps. Conferences and camps include educational seminars, leadership groups, youth educational and sports, religious leadership, and fraternal organizations.

With seven full-time professional staff, and 30-40 student staff, planners know that they can concentrate on creating their program and marketing their event, and the Georgia Tech Conference Services staff will work on the logistics. This includes coordinating living arrangements, meals, transportation and meeting space, as well as finding things to do in Atlanta. Partnerships with fellow on-campus vendors facilitiate these communications, and the staff works year round to put on summer camps and conferences. With the addition of registration services in the past year, the Conference Services team can really do it all for the event planner. 

Oct 12, 2017 | Atlanta, GA

Conference Services at Georgia Tech was named Best City Center Venue and Best Venue for Transportation Access by Unique Venues, a marketing service that pairs one-of-a-kind venues with meeting planners looking for non-traditional spaces. Groups with non-profit status or an educational mission can live in the middle of a thriving city at affordable rates in late May to the end of July by working with Conference Services at Georgia Tech.

Best City Center Venue

Our campus is located in the heart of midtown Atlanta, and by having a summer conference or institute on our college campus, clients benefit from the central site at an affordable price point.

Best Venue for Transportation Access

In the heart of Midtown Atlanta, Georgia Tech has three major interstates within five miles of campus, and two MARTA train stations adjacent to Georgia Tech campus with easy access to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world’s busiest airport. Hartsfield-Jackson reaches 225 destinations in 51 countries, serves 250,000 passengers a day, and sees nearly 2,500 arrivals and departures per day. 80% of the U.S. population is within a two-hour direct flight to Atlanta.

“Congratulations to Georgia Institute of Technology and the Housing & Conference Services team for these awards.  They are pushing the envelope, challenging peers in new, innovative ways and providing services and benefits that are new and haven’t been done before,” remarked Michele Nichols, Founder of Unique Venues. “There is strength in our number and power in our collective presence thanks to venues like Georgia Institute of Technology.”

About Conference Services at Georgia Tech

With seven full-time professional staff, and 30-40 student staff, planners know that they can concentrate on creating their program and marketing their event, and the Georgia Tech Conference Services staff will work on the logistics. This includes coordinating living arrangements, meals, transportation and meeting space, as well as finding things to do in Atlanta. Partnerships with fellow on-campus vendors facilitate these communications, and the staff works year round to put on summer camps and conferences. With the addition of registration services in 2013, the Conference Services team can really do it all for the event planner. Georgia Tech offers an ideal location for event planners who want to be in an easily accessible big city, but with affordable pricing. 

Nov 6, 2019 | Atlanta, GA

Conference Services at Georgia Tech received another “Best Of” honor. This time it was “Best Large-Market Venue”.

Best Large-Market Venue – 

Venues that are located within a major metro area of more than 3 million and take advantage of surrounding urban offerings

The award was presented by Unique Venues, a marketing firm that matches distinctive venues with meeting planners seeking non-traditional spaces for their meetings and events.

The 2019 Unique Venues BEST OF AWARDS pays homage to special event venues, business centers, campuses, museums and cultural centers in 26 different categories for going above and beyond to provide unparalleled service and professionalism.

Meeting planners and readers of Unique Venues magazine voted Georgia Tech Conference Services the winner for Best Large-Market Venue.

The award was officially received at the Unique Venues annual conference, October 2019.