{"522331":{"#nid":"522331","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Duke, University of Virginia and Georgia Tech Win Big at ACC InVenture Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudent inventors from Duke University, the University of Virginia and Georgia Tech triumphed at the ACC InVenture Prize, a new competition that celebrates entrepreneurship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBioMetrix from Duke won first place and $15,000. This team, led by two women, invented a way to keep athletes and sports teams healthier. A 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\u003EContraline from UVA finished second and earned $10,000. 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\u003EAnd Georgia Tech\u2019s FireHUD scored $5,000 as winners of the People Choice Award, which went to the fans\u2019 favorite invention. The team invented a device to help keep firefighters safe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/accinventure.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EACC InVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E, which taps into the startup culture growing on college campuses, was held at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach of the 15 universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference sent a team of students to the competition. The group was narrowed to five finalists that competed during Wednesday\u2019s live finale. The other two teams were from Boston College and the University of North Carolina.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe contest is sponsored by the ACC Academic Consortium, which supports academic initiatives among member universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERafael L. Bras, Georgia Tech\u2019s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, said leaders were looking to celebrate the strong academics found in all the ACC schools and agreed that the InVenture Prize was a way to accomplish that goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event was modeled after \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E, which rewards undergraduate students with cash prizes for innovations that aim to solve the world\u2019s big problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFireHUD won Georgia Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize last month.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZack Braun, a computer engineering major, and Tyler Sisk, an electrical engineering major, i\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2016\/04\/04\/keeping-firefighters-safe\u0022\u003Envented a head-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 know if they are overexerting themselves, which can lead to cardiac arrest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe device also transmits data to the incident commander, who can view it on a computer through an app.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team already \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2016\/03\/17\/firehud-wins-2016-inventure-prize\u0022\u003Ewon $20,000 in the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E. That, along with the $5,000 prize from the ACC contest, will allow them to continue to improve the device, Braun said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt felt great representing Georgia Tech,\u201d Sisk said. \u201cIt made this win a little bit more special because we were here for Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will continue to have a strong presence with the ACC InVenture Prize. The 2017 competition is scheduled to return to campus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudent inventors from Duke University, the University of Virginia and Georgia Tech triumphed at the ACC InVenture Prize, a new competition that celebrates entrepreneurship.\u0026nbsp;BioMetrix from Duke won first place and $15,000.\u0026nbsp;Contraline from UVA finished second and earned $10,000.\u0026nbsp;And Georgia Tech\u2019s FireHUD scored $5,000 as winners of the People Choice Award, which went to the fans\u2019 favorite invention. The team invented a device to help keep firefighters safe. The ACC InVenture Prize, which taps into the startup culture growing on college campuses, was held at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"FireHUD, which was invented by two Tech students, received the People\u2019s Choice Award and $5,000"}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2016-04-07 08:18:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:17","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","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:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":138374,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/accinventureprizelogo.jpg?itok=yfkQ7hvA"}}},"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":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"},{"id":"167585","name":"student competition"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"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":""}}}