{"199381":{"#nid":"199381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chewbots Wins 2013 InVenture Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChewbots, a line of fully automated robotic dog toys that make owning a dog easier and more exciting and interactive won the fifth annual InVenture Prize competition in front of a live television audience on Georgia Public Broadcasting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChristopher Taylor, mechanical engineering major from Stone Mountain, created the dog toys that won him up to $20,000 provided by Google and a spot in Georgia Tech\u2019s startup accelerator program, Flashpoint.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It was all just kind of a big blur,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cI was completely shocked. I don\u0027t really have the words to describe it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETaylor says he plans to manufacture the dog toys and is using his prize money to make a second prototype to test his product for durability.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EErika Tyburski, biomedical engineering major from Miami, and her invention, The AnemoCheck, took second place. Steven Wojcio, computer science major from Forsyth, Ga., and Scott Groveman, electrical engineering major from Roswell, Ga., who invented BioPin, took home the People\u2019s Choice award.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"AnemoCheck takes second and BioPin wins People\u2019s Choice"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChewbots, a line of fully automated robotic dog toys that make owning a dog easier and more exciting and interactive won the fifth annual InVenture Prize competition in front of a live television audience on Georgia Public Broadcasting.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Christopher Taylor\u0027s Chewbots win 2013 InVenture Prize"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2013-03-14 10:24:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:51","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pL4QBlZhDrk","title":"Chewbots Wins Video"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7FcMFWrtz2Y","title":"Video of InVenture Prize Finalists iSleep and Hue"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JxRsdsNVtmw","title":"Video of InVenture Prize Finalists Chewbots and BioPin"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4gNciTu6jB4","title":"Video of of InVenture Prize Finalists AnemoCheck and Spark"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgiatech\/sets\/72157632993015775\/with\/8558242710\/","title":"InVenture Prize Finals Photo Gallery"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"60671","name":"AnemoCheck"},{"id":"60701","name":"BioPIN"},{"id":"61461","name":"Chewbots"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"7764","name":"InVenture Prize"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Nagel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}