{"393231":{"#nid":"393231","#data":{"type":"news","title":"FlameTech Grill Defender wins 2015 InVenture Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFlameTech Grill Defender won top honors at the Georgia Tech 2015 InVenture Prize competition. Team OculoStaple took home second place, while Haplit won the people\u2019s choice award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInvented by computer science major Alex Roe, mechanical engineering major Scott Schroer, and business administration major Will Sweet, FlameTech is a safety device for gas grills. The team won $20,000, and both the first- and second-place finishers will receive free US patent filings by Georgia Tech\u2019s Office of Technology Licensing and a spot in Georgia Tech\u2019s startup accelerator program, Flashpoint.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is really great because we worked so hard and we scraped money together. Now, this give us a little more to go out and manufacture, print circuit boards and things,\u201d said Will Sweet. \u201cIt lends a lot of credibility to our product as well.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe OculoStaple is a medical device to safely treat ptosis, drooping of the upper eyelid. The medical device was created by biomedical engineering majors Jacquelyn Borinski, Mohamad Ali Najia and Drew Padilla, who also won $10,000 in prize money.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHaplit, an interactive device for teaching Braille to those who were born blind or are living with degenerative disease, was created by Philip Bale, a computer science major; Megan Fechter, a business administration major; and Chandler Matz, a computer engineering major. The People\u2019s Choice award received $5,000 in prize money.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMore information about InVenture Prize, Georgia Tech\u0027s student invention competition.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Invented by computer science major Alex Roe, mechanical engineering major Scott Schroer, and business administration major Will Sweet, FlameTech is a safety device for gas grills."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInvented by computer science major Alex Roe, mechanical engineering major Scott Schroer, and business administration major Will Sweet, FlameTech is a safety device for gas grills. The team won $20,000 and a U.S. patent filing for their invention.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"FlameTech Grill Defender wins 2015 InVenture Prize"}],"uid":"28058","created_gmt":"2015-04-02 10:54:01","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Steven Norris","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"123261","name":"2015 InVenture Prize"},{"id":"123271","name":"FlameTech"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"123281","name":"grilling"},{"id":"123291","name":"grills"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"1182","name":"Invention"},{"id":"4751","name":"inventor"},{"id":"7764","name":"InVenture Prize"},{"id":"167040","name":"science"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"}],"core_research_areas":[],"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 - Georgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}