{"54994":{"#nid":"54994","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech InVenture Prize Winners Announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJudges announced the first and second place winners of the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize last night in front of a live, televised audience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMechanical Engineering major Patrick Whaley, from Duluth, GA, won first place with his OmegaWear strengthening apparel. Whaley\u0027s workout wear incorporates hydro-gel weights in the clothing, placing them over major muscle groups to help increase caloric burn and improve muscle endurance. Whaley also won the People\u0027s Choice Award, voted on during the broadcast by the audience. For first place, Whaley won $15,000, plus $5,000 for the People\u0027s Choice Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAerospace Engineering major Sarah Vaden, from Huddleston, VA, won second place with the novel drum. Vaden, through principles learned in chemistry class, uses compressed gases to change the tone of a drum on the fly, while the drummer is playing. Her idea allows for one drum to produce different sounds. For second place, Vaden won $10,000. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth winners will receive a free U.S. patent filing from the Georgia Tech Office of Technology Licensing, each valued at approximately $20,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe finals competition was held in the Ferst Center for the Arts, and broadcast live on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Former CNN science correspondent Miles O\u0027Brien hosted, and Georgia Tech chemistry researcher Bahareh Azizi co-hosted.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStrengthening Apparel, Novel Drum selected as winning inventions in Georgia Tech InVenture Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Winners announced for 2nd InVenture Prize."}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2010-03-18 09:23:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:45","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"54995":{"id":"54995","type":"image","title":"2010 InVenture Prize Winners","body":null,"created":"1449175490","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:50","changed":"1475894483","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:23","alt":"2010 InVenture Prize Winners","file":{"fid":"190192","name":"InventureWinners.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/InventureWinners.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/InventureWinners.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":291329,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/InventureWinners.jpg?itok=SicnrDgr"}}},"media_ids":["54995"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.inventureprize.gatech.edu\/","title":"Inventure"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"5498","name":"InVenture Prize Competition"}],"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":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}