The extended research project gives the scholar the chance to address the identified challenge in an immersive way under the guidance of a research mentor. This component can be fulfilled in a research laboratory, off-campus in a community, in the library, in a maker space, etc… The scholar will experience a research topic in which they may build up an extensive knowledge base so that they are able to make interesting and testable hypotheses. As the scholar takes on a research project centered around improving the human condition, they will be presented with opportunities to fulfill all other facets of the grand challenges program, and so the research component is considered to be core to the vast experience gained from the GCSP.
Here are some choices to complete the research competency at Georgia Tech:
- Completion of a Grand Challenges Living Learning Community sponsored project
- Completion of the COE-GCSP cohort program
- Two semesters. or more conducting research in an approved Georgia Tech, industry, or co-op laboratory
- Membership for two semesters or more on a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) team
- An approved intensive summer research project (REU)
- Participation in the Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars program
- Receiving and completing a PURA undergraduate research award
- Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)
- Idea to Prototype (I2P) semester focused on a challenge
- Completion of the GT Research Option
- Two semesters of research with the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
- Completion of the Minority Undergraduate Scholars Engineering Research program
- Two semesters of research with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC)
- Two semesters of research with the Opportunity Research Scholars (ORS)
- Two semesters of research with the Georgia Tech Research Institute