{"521911":{"#nid":"521911","#data":{"type":"news","title":"FireHUD Advances to ACC InVenture Prize Finals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo Georgia Tech students who invented a device to help keep firefighters safe advanced to the final round of the inaugural ACC InVenture Prize competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZack Braun, a computer engineering major, and Tyler Sisk, an electrical engineering major, will compete against students from for four other universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ACC InVenture Prize awards cash prizes to undergraduate students whose innovations aim to solve world problems and make our lives more comfortable. Each of the 15 universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference selected a team of student entrepreneurs for the competition, which is taking place at Georgia Tech. A preliminary round held Tuesday evening narrowed the field to five finalists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBesides FireHUD, the other finalists are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBioMetrix from Duke University. This team, led by two women, invented a way to keep athletes and sports teams healthier. Their wearable sensor adheres to the skin, collects data and uses cloud services to quantify rehabilitation progress and provide real-time feedback to reduce athletic injuries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommuniGift from University of North Carolina. This three-member team created a gift-purchasing platform that enables children celebrating their birthday to invite their guests to give to a child in need instead of buying something for the birthday boy or girl. Gifts are sent directly from retail sites to sponsoring non-profits, which distribute the items.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContraline from University of Virginia. This five-member team is developing a male contraceptive that is long-lasting, non-hormonal and reversible. The non-surgical process is safe, effective and more appealing than condoms or vasectomies, inventors said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMocean from Boston College. This three-person team developed a real-time music application that allows an unlimited number of people to play a song at the exact same time. It enables anyone with a smart device to become a live radio station.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe five teams will pitch their inventions before a live audience and panel of judges tonight starting at 8 p.m. in the Ferst Center for the Arts. Georgia Public Broadcasting will air the show live and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gpb.org\/acc-inventure-2016\u0022\u003Estream it here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winner will receive $15,000 and the second-place finisher will take home $10,000. A $5,000 People\u2019s Choice Award will go the fans\u2019 favorite invention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe competition is sponsored by the ACC Academic Consortium, which supports academic initiatives among member universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe tournament is modeled after Georgia Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize, which started in 2009 to leverage the maker culture and encourage students to push their ideas even further.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBraun and Sisk -- who are both from Newnan, Ga. -- advanced to the ACC contest after winning Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize last month. The first-place prize in that competition included $20,000 and a free U.S. patent filing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2016\/04\/04\/keeping-firefighters-safe\u0022\u003Einvention is a heads-up-display\u003C\/a\u003E that attaches to a firefighter\u2019s mask and measures heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen level, body temperature, external temperature and other vital signs. This information will help firefighters determine whether they are overexerting themselves and are at risk for cardiac arrest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe device also transmits data to the incident commander on the scene, who can view it on a computer through an app.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech students will compete against teams from Boston College, Duke University, University of North Carolina and University of Virginia."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFireHUD advances to ACC InVenture Prize finals, which will take place tonight on campus. The team of two Georgia Tech students will compete against teams from Boston College, Duke University, University of North Carolina and University of Virginia. The competition will award $30,000 in cash pizes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Student inventors from Georgia Tech, Boston College, Duke University, University of North Carolina and University of Virginia will compete in the ACC InVenture Prize finale."}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2016-04-06 08:15:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:17","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"505261":{"id":"505261","type":"image","title":"ACC InVenture Prize logo","body":null,"created":"1456760341","gmt_created":"2016-02-29 15:39:01","changed":"1522856406","gmt_changed":"2018-04-04 15:40:06","alt":"","file":{"fid":"204818","name":"accinventureprizelogo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":138374,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg?itok=16t43Zo-"}}},"media_ids":["505261"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/accinventure.gatech.edu\/","title":"ACC InVenture Prize"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171892","name":"competitions"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedia Relations\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E@LauraRDiamond\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}