Wednesday, August 18, we served up traditional and hard lemonades at Technology Enterprise Park (TEP) during our TEP Tunes: The Formative Years Cocktail Talk, where we asked our community members what their favorite songs of their childhood were. Whether it was recollections from people’s first albums to their first concerts to songs their parents instilled in them at a young age, the responses came pouring in – and were wide-ranging!

On the evening of Thursday, August 12, Aubrie Goodson, Senior Chemist at VERO Biotech, led five Tech Square ATL (TSQATL) Social Club community members from Technology Enterprise Park (TEP), Centergy One, Tech Square Research Building (TSRB), and Georgia Tech to have a thoughtful conversation during a Power Meal around the topic of technology driving emotional intelligence.

Prior to the Olympic Flame being extinguished on Sunday, August 8, signaling the official end of the historic games, we wanted to host one more themed activation in honor of such a momentous occasion. This summer had been quite the spectacle, with Simone Biles and dressage captivating the headlines, amongst other record-breakers. But what about the unsung heroes? What about the events that require elite athlete-level training, but aren't recognized as official Olympic sports? Enter: Uncommon Olympics – a Coffee Talk we hosted at Technology Enterprise Park (TEP) that shed light on the types of activities that should be in the Olympics, but aren't currently.

With the Summer Olympics in full swing, we at Tech Square ATL (TSQATL) Social Club thought there was no better time than to host an Olympic-themed event of our own at Technology Enterprise Park (TEP). Enter our Five Rings Field Day activation, where we invited community members to form teams and compete for gold in five events, ranging from physical endurance to mental agility – and everything in between!

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” These were the words that American astronaut, Neil Armstrong, uttered upon stepping foot on the moon 52 years ago on July 20, 1969. To celebrate this historic day in a playful way, we hosted a Coffee Talk and served little moons (in the form of powdered doughnut holes and Moon Pies) with a side of lunar-themed tunes and trivia for our community members at Technology Enterprise Park (TEP).

Five local Atlanta entrepreneurs met for a live recording discussing when they took their ideas and committed to them becoming a real business venture. Of course, founders should go through customer discovery phases and beyond, but this discussion focused more on the mental and emotional side of making that transition.

Teamwork, camaraderie, and spirit: These are the elements that capture people’s passions across the globe when it comes to both soccer and video games. In the spirit of this year’s UEFA European Championship, Tech Square ATL Social Club member Donald Innocent-Ike hosted Plug + Play: FIFA Night at The Clubhouse.

A community can be defined, traditionally, as “a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” While we do believe this to be true, we at Tech Square ATL (TSQATL) Social Club also believe it’s those unique and differing passions from a diverse and robust group of people that make a community so interesting. And with the pandemic causing many people to hone in on their newfound, or even resurfaced, hobbies and pastimes, we thought hosting a Coffee Talk where members could share their side hustles with each other would showcase the depth and breadth of such a diversified community.

With the start of the Summer Olympic Games just around the corner, we at Tech Square ATL (TSQATL) Social Club felt inspired to have a little competition ourselves – and put our community’s athletes to the ultimate test. No, it wasn’t a traditional Olympic event, nor was it part of the Five Ring Field Day we’re hosting at the end of month. This was something epic. Something that we’ve never done before. Something that could bring a smile to one’s face, a tear to their eye, and perhaps even cause them to...throw up.

Knowing our Technology Enterprise Park (TEP) folks love a good challenge – and a refreshing adult beverage from time to time – we headed over last week to give our hardworking community a much-deserved afternoon break, but not before testing them with some trivia first.

Every week at The Clubhouse, we pose a question on our big conversation board about what’s been on the radar for our members lately. This is designed to not only spark conversations and encourage collaboration, but to also allow us to better know our community members in a fun and unique way. Recently, we asked whether or not they would go on a one-way trip to Mars.

Meet Raghav Apoorv, a Software Engineer at Uber. When he isn’t building machine learning (ML) models to predict competitive business metrics and designing and developing scalable data platforms to perform complex queries, you can find him cooking, going on hikes, hanging out with friends, and exploring new restaurants.

At Tech Square ATL (TSQATL) Social Club, we take pride in being a part of the innovation and community that thrives here in Tech Square. Whether it’s by connecting community members, discussing innovators who inspire them, shedding a light on their achievements, or spotlighting successful, local women, we not only aspire to foster an environment where these connections can be made, but also serve as a platform that touts the amazing startups, dedicated professionals, and fresh talent that make this community so unique. Whether you’re green in your respective field, or have been in the workforce more years than you can count, to us, age is nothing but a number.

Music has the power to bring a diverse group of people together because it goes beyond the limitations of linguistics. With its own language of melody and rhythm, it enables people to find common ground with one other no matter where they are – or where they are from – in the world. Like music, we at Tech Square ATL (TSQATL) Social Club like to think that we are the thread that brings corporate innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs, and students together with our thoughtfully-produced community activations, especially as we continue to emerge with a different perspective of the world after isolation. So, curious about the Tech Square community’s music tastes as of late, we partnered with TSQATL Social Club member Charlie Duprey Langlois to host a Cocktail Talk on a sunny summer day to find out: What was the last song you favorited on your music streaming app?

At Tech Square ATL (TSQATL) Social Club, we’re no stranger to virtual reality (VR), it’s ever-growing popularity, and the continuously-advancing technology that backs it. From community conversations of using VR in classrooms, training environments, and for exercise during a pandemic, to deep discussions with experts around the ever-expanding field and the future of the wearable technology, to more hands-on activations that include using VR to reduce fear response or create a community mural, we’ve pretty much covered it all (and will continue to do so!).