{"671570":{"#nid":"671570","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Path Was Winding and the Outcome Perfect for Nicole Proudfoot","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENicole Proudfoot discovered in high school that she really liked using technology to help people.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProudfoot is from Costa Rica, and she and a friend had been thinking about the prosthetic devices available in the country for children missing portions of their arms. They were clunky, with limited function \u2014 often just a pinching mechanism to grasp objects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe pair wondered, could they use 3D printing to create an affordable and more dynamic alternative for the kids. Around that time, they found out about an entrepreneurship competition for high schools, and they set out to develop designs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy school taught us about designing and engineering and had just bought a 3D printer. We started working with kids that had upper limb amputations and started producing designs,\u201d Proudfoot said. \u201cI think that\u2019s what definitely made me want to go into biomedical engineering and explore the robotic side, because it tied in with prosthetics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA high school counselor pointed her to Georgia Tech, where another student from her school had thrived. And Proudfoot used her 3D-printed prostheses, which won the entrepreneurship competition, as the basis for her application essay.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere was just one problem: When Proudfoot got to Tech, she realized biomolecules and physiology were far less interesting to her than biomedical robotics. Suddenly, she felt lost.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/path-was-winding-and-outcome-perfect-nicole-proudfoot\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGet the full story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe mechanical engineering student credits her community for helping her navigate to a dream job at Apple.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The mechanical engineering student credits her community for helping her navigate to a dream job at Apple."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2023-12-14 16:56:13","changed_gmt":"2023-12-14 16:58:13","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672582":{"id":"672582","type":"image","title":"Nicole Proudfoot Class of 2023","body":null,"created":"1702572979","gmt_created":"2023-12-14 16:56:19","changed":"1702572979","gmt_changed":"2023-12-14 16:56:19","alt":"Nicole Proudfoot in front of the Georgia Tech historical marker with a \u0022Helluva Engineer - Class of 2023\u0022 overlay graphic","file":{"fid":"255850","name":"Nicole-Proudfoot-thumbnail.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/12\/14\/Nicole-Proudfoot-thumbnail.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/12\/14\/Nicole-Proudfoot-thumbnail.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":749529,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/12\/14\/Nicole-Proudfoot-thumbnail.jpg?itok=lnFKz49k"}}},"media_ids":["672582"],"groups":[{"id":"551651","name":"Center for Engineering Education and Diversity (CEED)"},{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"289141","name":"Women in Engineering (WIE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}