Melissa Pilkington

Melissa Pilkington, Lecturer of Spanish at Georgia Tech, received a Masters of Arts from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1978. She has been teaching Spanish since 1971, and at Georgia Tech since 2005. She has traveled to and studied extensively in many Spanish-speaking countries and continues to travel to Spain every summer for continuing education. She also has co-created and taught Georgia Tech students in a Study Abroad Program, Spain: Visit and Live it! (Summer of 2017) in Sevilla, Spain with colleague Dr. Danielle Geary. Ms. Pilkington and Dr.Geary have continued this successful program in 2018 and 2019. Covid prevented travel in 2020 and 2021. Throughout her years at Tech, she has received numerous teaching certificates for excellent teaching: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. She was honored with several Teaching Effectiveness Awards by the Georgia Tech Class of 1934 and the Georgia Tech Class of 1940. These awards were given to those who have consistently scored between 4.8 and 5.0 on the C-IOS survey regarding effective teaching. These awards came with thousand-dollar gifts. She is deeply appreciative and proud of this recognition. She is first and foremost a teacher, and she loves her students.