I am the primary staff person who coordinates the Career, Research and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC). I have worked with Graduate SGA since 2009, working with eight other graduate coordinators; Sang is the most dedicated student I have had the pleasure to work. CRIDC Georgia Tech’s flagship spring event for graduate students which includes, employer panels, poster competition and this year first graduate career fair. The event was over a year in the planning, execution, wrap-up, and proposals for CRIDC 2019 are already in place based on Sang’s 2018 recommendations.
Sang was the primary Graduate SGA contact person and organizer for CRIDC. Sang lead the way to in encouraging the CRIDC committee to consider expanding CRIDC to a two-day event. Sang proposed two-day event which would include the first graduate career fair, a feat no other Graduate SGA has attempted. From the beginning Sang supported this …show more content…
As a result two panels were added: Women in STEM and Navigating the Work-Visa Landscape.
Sang was contacted high level administrator’s encouraging them to donate monies for poster competition. Sang raised $ 72,000 for the poster competition, more than last year. He also recruited and organized over 120 alumni, faculty and staff to serve as poster judges for the poster competition.
The year’s CRIDC was the most successful event ever held! Much of that success can be attributed to Sang’s excellent communication skills and ability to include and motivate students and student organizations across campus to participate and support this event. Sang was able to coordinate a communication plan to keep graduate students and graduate student organizations informed of the progress and solicited support for