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Tech Beautification Day (TBD) was started in 1998 as a day of service where students could give back to their campus
through a combination of general cleanup, landscaping, and bringing together the Georgia Tech Community as a whole.
Since then, TBD has grown immensely in terms of volunteer numbers and variety of projects. We are now celebrating the
twelfth year anniversary of this community service event held each spring on Georgia Tech's campus.
With each year TBD continues to grow in its number of volunteers and impact. 2009 saw a 100% increase in the number
of volunteers from 2008. By teaming up to clean up, we expect to have
about 1500 volunteers this year! Volunteers were spread over 70 different projects. Volunteers not only beautified the
Tech campus, but its surrounding community as well.
Tech Beautification Day successfully engineered the Greek Initiative in 2009 to motivate the Greek community to
take pride in their property as an important part of the Tech campus. Each house was able to submit
project ideas and their supplies needs. Thanks to the support of our 2009 sponsors and the support of the
Interfraternal Council and the Panhellenic Council, houses were able to complete such projects as planting
flowers, painting, spreading fresh pinestraw and mulch and laying grass seed. The Greek Initiative was
well received by all campus leaders and is expected to continue to grow each year.
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