{"506461":{"#nid":"506461","#data":{"type":"news","title":"International Affairs Student\u0027s \u2018FretWizard\u2019 Is InVenture Prize Finalist","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe annual InVenture Prize competition celebrates interdisciplinary entrepreneurship and innovation at Georgia Tech. This year, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is represented in the competition by Molly Ricks, a junior in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs who helped design \u003Cem\u003EFretWizard\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;a novel learning tool for aspiring guitarists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFretWizard\u003C\/em\u003E uses artificial intelligence to visualize the fingerings for guitar parts that are written in a popular notation style called tablature. Ricks, who designed \u003Cem\u003EFretWizard\u003C\/em\u003E\u2019s user interface and helps with marketing, was inspired by her personal experience studying abroad in Beijing and struggling to learn guitar alongside \u003Cem\u003EFretWizard\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;team leader Ali Abid, a\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ecomputer science major.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur main guitar learning resources were video tutorials and tab websites, which we found to be hard to read and not very helpful,\u201d Ricks said. \u201cThis inspired Ali to use his coding skills to come up with a program that would help teach you how to learn guitar on your own.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERicks said she enjoys flexing her problem solving skills in her work with \u003Cem\u003EFretWizard\u003C\/em\u003E. Although she learned about user interface design outside of her international affairs classes, she believes many Nunn School students find themselves interested in the intersection of strategy, problem solving, and people.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI really believe in this project and the impact it will have on people, which definitely drives me to learn new skills in user interface design and marketing that may not be found in an INTA classroom,\u201d Ricks said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERicks views the 2016 InVenture Prize finals, which will be held on March 16 at the Ferst Center Theatre, as the culmination of months of collaboration and testing. She is excited to show off \u003Cem\u003EFretWizard\u003C\/em\u003E and demonstrate how novice guitar players could benefit from it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis project has the potential to help so many people pursue their passion,\u201d Ricks said. \u201cThe whole process of creating \u003Cem\u003EFretWizard\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;has really fallen into place perfectly, and we can\u2019t wait to present this idea.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe annual InVenture Prize competition celebrates interdisciplinary entrepreneurship and innovation at Georgia Tech. Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts student Molly Ricks, a international affairs major in the Sam Nunn School, is co-designer of \u003Cem\u003EFretWizard\u003C\/em\u003E, a novel learning tool for aspiring guitarists that qualified as a finalist for this year\u0027s prize.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Molly Ricks\u0027 visual learning tool for guitarists will be presented in Georgia Tech\u0027s premier invention prize competition March 16."}],"uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-02-25 17:34:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:53","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"506491":{"id":"506491","type":"image","title":"FretWizard","body":null,"created":"1456765200","gmt_created":"2016-02-29 17:00:00","changed":"1475895268","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:28","alt":"FretWizard","file":{"fid":"204854","name":"fretwizard.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fretwizard_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fretwizard_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":115711,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/fretwizard_0.jpg?itok=5mioO9bP"}},"506471":{"id":"506471","type":"image","title":"Ali Abid and Molly Ricks","body":null,"created":"1456765200","gmt_created":"2016-02-29 17:00:00","changed":"1475895268","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:28","alt":"Ali Abid and Molly Ricks","file":{"fid":"204853","name":"team_11-fretwizard.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/team_11-fretwizard_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/team_11-fretwizard_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13055,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/team_11-fretwizard_0.jpg?itok=wXi3bwIQ"}}},"media_ids":["506491","506471"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.fretwizard.com\/","title":"FretWizard"},{"url":"https:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\/","title":"InVenture Prize Tickets"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"151371","name":"2016 Inventure Prize"},{"id":"1309","name":"music technology"},{"id":"10536","name":"Nunn School"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.1720\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}