The Gordon County students earned Faculty Honors for Spring 2012 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Michael Butler and Andrew Elakman, both of Calhoun, earned a 4.00 academic average for the semester gain the distinction of Faculty Honors at Georgia Tech.

The Georgia Institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech, is one of the nation’s leading research universities, providing a focused, technologically based education to more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Georgia Tech has many nationally recognized programs, all top ranked by peers and publications alike, and is ranked in the nation’s top ten public universities by U.S. News and World Report.

As a leading technological university, Georgia Tech has more than 100 interdisciplinary research centers operating through the Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Management, Engineering, Sciences, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts that consistently contribute vital research and innovation to America’s government, industry and business.