Georgia Institute of Technology Brain Research Study

SEE YOUR BRAIN AT WORK!

We are conducting a memory and stress study to examine spatial navigation techniques used during a computerized virtual navigation game.

Th is is a two-day study and eligible participants will perform some of the navigation tasks while receiving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans. *Non-MRI

We are looking for men and women volunteers who are:

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“My wife and I are pretty frugal,” he said. “That’s a philosophy that drives me.”

His kryptonite, though, is vintage cars. Among his collection are a factory original 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air and a very rare 1934 Packard Super Eight Dual-Cowl Sport Phaeton. Choate changes their oil and filters himself in a maintenance garage at his home, “mainly because it’s faster,” he said.

Some of his cars will be part of Cars & ‘Q, where crowds now top 1,200 and which last year raised more money than ever—$515,422.

“What is so cool about the car show is how our employees are the ones that are generating those figures,” Bridges said. “It’s not just Dad. It’s not me. It’s the entire company.”

The event’s first Warrior Award was bestowed last year in recognition of a Cars & ‘Q sponsor or volunteer who has demonstrated steady dedication to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. This year it goes to the Metromont Corporation.

The award is given in memory of the event’s inspiration, Leann Rittenbaum Ott. She died at age 33 in 2018, eight months after a double lung transplant. Her mother, Karen Rittenbaum, asked Bridges to write her obituary.

You will be compensated for your participation. If you are interested please contact us at: maplab@gatech.edu or call our lab at (404) 385-0798.

Her father, Scot Rittenbaum, is former executive director of the Georgia Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He said Choate Construction has had “mind-boggling” impact on cystic fibrosis and that the Choate family has been with his family every step of the way.

“Leann, with the Choates, was just able to be a little girl, then a teenager, then an adult, and that provided Leann and our family great comfort,” he said. “There was one place where she could just be Leann, and that was probably the greatest gift of all.”

While the new drug didn’t come in time for her, it has given Choate what he calls a tangible return on investment. “As I keep telling our teams, we really had a great play there (with Trikafta), but we’re on the 10-yard line and we still have to get to the goal line,” he said. “We still have to finally eradicate this horrific disease.”

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