More than 450 alumni and friends from 41 Georgia Tech clubs across the country joined thousands of Tech students participating in the annual TEAM Buzz day. Volunteers helped build homes with Habitat for Humanity, assisted at food banks, cleaned parks and spent time at elder care facilities in their respective communities.

“This was a great gathering for a good cause,” Jerry Abbott, CE 55, said of the Birmingham club’s Habitat for Humanity experience. “Some alumni brought their high school-age children to work with us. Now that the school in Athens has an alumni club here in Birmingham, we plan to challenge them in the spring to a Habitat hassle. We are sure that we engineers can outbuild them without trouble.”

Alumni Association trustee Tony Chan, IE 94, MS IE 98, started TEAM Buzz in 1997 as a way for the Tech community to work with metro Atlanta service organizations in community service projects.

“TEAM Buzz has grown in scope and participation each year and has expanded to clubs throughout the United States,” said Jeff Colburn, director of alumni clubs.

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