{"605846":{"#nid":"605846","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Selected as Finalists in National Invention Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESarthak Srinivas, a computer science major, and Charu Thomas, an industrial engineering major, lead the team behind\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/oculogx.com\/\u0022\u003EOculogx\u003C\/a\u003E, which streamlines the steps it takes to locate and handle items in warehouses. It\u0026nbsp;is a mixed-reality application used with a headset that combines barcode scanning for immediate inventory control with navigation that projects the optimal path through the\u0026nbsp;warehouse to each item.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn earlier iteration, called PickAR, was a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2017\/03\/14\/bringing-augmented-reality-warehouses\u0022\u003Efinalist\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for the 2017\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s annual invention competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe application recently\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/imagine.microsoft.com\/en-us\/Team\/Index\/5cb5f8d5-f477-4463-83f1-2ae1ebfe1b48\u0022\u003Efinished second in the Imagine Cup\u003C\/a\u003E, a worldwide innovation competition sponsored by Microsoft.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo other computer science majors, Cheng Hann and\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EWenqi Xian, were part of the team during InVenture and assisted with the Microsoft contest.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have never forgotten how helpful our mentors and peers at Georgia Tech and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;program have been,\u0026rdquo; Srinivas said. \u0026ldquo;We have made a lot of great progress on our product and have migrated to a new development environment based on Android.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/collegiateinventors.org\/\u0022\u003ECollegiate Inventors Competition\u003C\/a\u003E, teams will travel to Washington, D.C., for the event, which will take place from Nov. 1-3. The judges include National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees and leaders from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Student winners and their advisors will be awarded cash and prizes ranging from $2,500 to $10,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe competition, which started in 1990, is considered one of the nation\u0026rsquo;s foremost competitions encouraging innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity by recognizing and rewarding college students working on cutting-edge inventions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOculogyx also recently won the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/atlantastartupbattle.com\/\u0022\u003EAtlanta Startup Battle\u003C\/a\u003E, which awarded the company $100,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Students Selected as Finalists in National Invention Competition"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"An invention from Georgia Tech students that makes it easier to locate items in large warehouses is a finalist for the 2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition, which honors the nation\u2019s top collegiate inventors."}],"uid":"28156","created_gmt":"2018-05-04 15:50:44","changed_gmt":"2018-05-09 13:50:56","author":"Recha Reid","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"605984":{"id":"605984","type":"image","title":"Collegiate Innovation Competition","body":null,"created":"1525873785","gmt_created":"2018-05-09 13:49:45","changed":"1525873785","gmt_changed":"2018-05-09 13:49:45","alt":"","file":{"fid":"231107","name":"collegiate inventors competition logo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/collegiate%20inventors%20competition%20logo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/collegiate%20inventors%20competition%20logo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":223031,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/collegiate%20inventors%20competition%20logo.jpg?itok=w8JzHHSc"}}},"media_ids":["605984"],"groups":[{"id":"605793","name":"Innovation (news)"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"1069","name":"Inventure"},{"id":"102","name":"Prize"},{"id":"5457","name":"warehouse"},{"id":"1182","name":"Invention"},{"id":"2029","name":"Competition"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMedia Relations\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E@LauraRDiamond\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}