{"591431":{"#nid":"591431","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Team Wins Toyota Next Generation Mobility Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of Georgia Tech students won the Toyota Next Generation Mobility Challenge last week. Team members won summer internships at Toyota and the chance for funding to bring their design to life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u0026rsquo;s project, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vimeo.com\/214441872\u0022\u003EPara Pickup\u003C\/a\u003E, is a service that gives individuals with disabilities safe, affordable, and flexible ways to get home. The team includes Sally Xia, digital media; Riley Keen and Pranav Nair, industrial design graduate students; and Kris Weng, undergraduate mechanical engineering student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Next Generation Mobility Challenge, a national competition organized by Toyota and Net Impact, offers students an opportunity to use design thinking to devise solutions to mobility issues, such as transportation challenges impacting low-income workers and people with disabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Toyota Mobility Design Challenge focused on bringing people the mobility they deserve,\u0026rdquo; said Xia. \u0026ldquo;As for our project, we focused on designing for people who travel with a wheelchair as we realize the current solutions are insufficient.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team members were offered internships on social innovation teams at Toyota\u0026rsquo;s North America headquarters in Plano, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETeam members won summer internships at Toyota and the chance for funding to bring their design to life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Team members won summer internships at Toyota and the chance for funding to bring their design to life."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2017-05-05 15:03:23","changed_gmt":"2017-05-10 13:51:18","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591173":{"id":"591173","type":"image","title":"Sally Xia (left), Riley Keen (center), and Kris Weng (right)","body":null,"created":"1493667406","gmt_created":"2017-05-01 19:36:46","changed":"1493667406","gmt_changed":"2017-05-01 19:36:46","alt":"Sally Xia (left), Riley Keen (center), and Kris Weng (right)","file":{"fid":"225256","name":"ParaPickup.PNG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ParaPickup.PNG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ParaPickup.PNG","mime":"image\/png","size":588206,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ParaPickup.PNG?itok=Qqg4DcfP"}}},"media_ids":["591173"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2017\/5\/digital-media-master-student-reaches-final-round-toyota-generation-mobility\/591175","title":"Tech Team Makes Final Round of Toyota Next Generation Mobility Challenge"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4100","name":"challenge"},{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"172478","name":"Toyota"},{"id":"2029","name":"Competition"},{"id":"1482","name":"mobility"},{"id":"242","name":"disabilities"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}