Danielle Madda Awarded Georgia Tech’s Stamps Presidential Scholarship

According to Georgia Tech’s website, less than 1% of their admitted students receive this prestigious award, which includes a four-year, full scholarship covering tuition, mandatory fees, housing, meal plan, books and academic supplies, personal expenses, and a stipend during freshman year for a laptop.

 

The scholarship also comes with a $15,000 fund for enrichment experiences, like study abroad, unpaid internships, unpaid research or conferences.  The program includes annual retreats in an outdoor/leadership style to Iceland, Belize, Canada, Croatia, Alaska and Scotland.  Recipients are selected based upon holistic excellence and potential within the program’s four pillars: Scholarship, Leadership, Progress and Service.

 

Dani is the first Pinecrest student to receive this coveted Georgia Tech scholarship. She declined a sizeable scholarship to the University of Notre Dame in order to become a “helluva engineer” as an Industrial Engineering major and become very involved with Tech's very active Catholic Center.

 

Georgia Tech approved Dani’s deferral request for one year so that she may serve the Catholic Church via the Regnum Christi Mission Corps program. Following her May 2017 graduation from Pinecrest, Dani will travel to Rhode Island for a four-week mission training course and then will receive her mission location assignment in August 2017.