Dermody received the Grenga Award which was created to celebrate the accomplishments of women in engineering, and is presented to a woman engineering student who has demonstrated outstanding scholarship, leadership, and service in her field and in the Georgia Tech community. The honor is named after Helen Grenga, the first female tenured engineering professor at Georgia Tech in the School of Metallurgy, now known as the School of Materials Science and Engineering.
Dermody is completing her civil engineering degree, and is set to graduate in the summer semester. She is a recipient of the Boeing scholarship, the Fluor scholarship, and is a member of both Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon, the civil engineering honor society. She has served as an Ambassador for the Women in Engineering Program, and as a Project Vision Team Leader for Habitat for Humanity.
The Tau Beta Pi Award, given to Sutehall, is the highest honor that an undergraduate engineering student can earn at Georgia Tech. Based not only on excellent scholarship, but also outstanding accomplishments and contributions, the award recognizes the top Georgia Tech engineering undergraduate who has demonstrated academic excellence, leadership, and service to the field and the Institute, and who has shown potential for continuing growth.
Sutehall entered Georgia Tech as a President's Scholar and will graduate with a 4.0 GPA. As a freshman in high school, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The surgery to remove the tumor took away a sizable portion of his brain. As a result, he had to re-learn most of the basic activities in life. Sutehall's academic excellence at Tech earned him a Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Scholarship and a General Electric Company Scholar Award. Along with conducting undergraduate research and being a co-op student, Sutehall has served on six mission trips to Nicaragua, was a peer leader in the residence hall association, and is team secretary for the GT Men's Lacrosse Team.