She founded the Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) program at Georgia Tech in 1998, modeling it after MIT's UROP.[6] In 1999, Bruckman's research was supported by a prestigious grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program.[7] That same year, she was selected as one of Technology Review's 100 remarkable innovators under the age of 35.[8] Her work at this time was described as "the most notable MOO research in education."[8]