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GW Team Celebrates First Flight at Design, Build, Fly Competition

GW students working on their unmanned aircraft

A team of GW students competed for the first time in person at the 2022 Design, Build, Fly competition, sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The international competition is an opportunity for students to get practical experience in the field.

The aim for the competition was to design, build and test an unmanned aircraft to deliver components needed for vaccination—timely, as this was the first time the competition has been held in person since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Missions included aircraft deployment, staging of vaccination syringes and delivery of environmentally sensitive vaccine vial packages.

NEWS AND EVENTS

GW Today, GW's official online news source

Olympian Elana Meyers Taylor Inspires Graduates to Create ‘Medal-Worthy Moments’
- The pioneering GW alumna and athlete headlined the Commencement ceremony for the Class of 2022 on the National Mall.
Graduates: What and Who They’ll Remember Most about GW
In Photos: Commencement 2022
Dozens of Alumni, Professors Named among Washingtonian’s Most Influential Policymakers

STORIES FROM OUR COMMUNITY

Pultizer Prize Coins

Nine members of the GW community were awarded Pulitzer Prizes—the highest national honor in journalism and the arts for their work covering the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and examining fatal shootings by law enforcement during traffic stops in the United States. The deputy director of the Program on Extremism, a Corcoran faculty member and seven alumni from CCAS, Corcoran and SMPA were recognized for their excellence in journalism.

Student cleaning wall as service at DC memorial

GW students have long been engaged citizens willing to serve. This academic year was no different as students accumulated hundreds of thousands of service hours while being deeply involved in global initiatives that earned them recognition. The Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service expects to exceed 650,000 volunteer service hours and present awards to more than 500 students in 2022.

"Thomas Buergenthal visited my Holocaust class @GWtweets today and I’ll never forget it. It was the first time in my life hearing from a Holocaust survivor directly. Research through text is one thing. Hearing directly from the person is another."

Gavin Coble

BA Political Science '19

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