{"615207":{"#nid":"615207","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Brought Opportunity, Surprises to Biomedical Engineering Graduate","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The culture shock of coming here was so strong that I was ready to transfer after my first year,\u0026rdquo; recalls Los Angeles native Sarah Bush, a graduating biomedical engineer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe had chosen Georgia Tech after touring the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and meeting professors who instantly seemed accessible. \u0026ldquo;I felt invited to ask big questions, and assured that there would be an expert willing to engage with me.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, Bush packed up her belongings and traveled across the country to \u0026ldquo;get to work.\u0026rdquo; Though it was a tough adjustment at first, she eventually found her place here.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the course of her undergraduate career, Bush has held two research and development-related internships; studied abroad in New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji; gained medical robotics research experience; and become the founder and CEO of a startup company.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I know that there\u0026#39;s something magic in the water here that converts intentions into reality,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;It is an epicenter of technical expertise \u0026mdash; and I have a well-rounded engineering toolkit as a result.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBush, who also has a minor in industrial design, put those tools to work when she joined CREATE-X, Tech\u0026rsquo;s pioneering entrepreneurship initiative. In her words, the experience \u0026ldquo;paved the road from class project to marketable technology, and undergraduate student to CEO.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the past two and a half years, she and her team have been developing TINA (Tampon Insertion Aid) Healthcare. TINA is a universal and ergonomic tool that helps women with limited dexterity, as well as new users, insert tampons. They participated in three campus entrepreneurship programs: InVenture Prize, Idea 2 Prototype, and Startup Launch.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This exposure put us in front of venture capitalists, angel investors, senior executives, and the U.S. Secretary of Education,\u0026rdquo; Bush says. It also landed them on Atlanta Inno\u0026rsquo;s 25 Under 25 list of rising entrepreneurs and technologists.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;We were provided with resources and a network of mentors just because we were hardworking students with an idea.\u0026rdquo; And that, she says, is what sets Tech apart.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the biggest takeaways from her undergraduate experience is \u0026ldquo;being comfortable with ambiguity. Half of the battle in solving a big problem is defining it and breaking it into approachable pieces. At Georgia Tech, I\u0026rsquo;ve been repeatedly exposed to this methodology, and I\u0026rsquo;m ready to apply it to each challenge to come.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother lesson was more surprising for Bush, who arrived on campus focused on the academic side of college. But she eventually, and happily, discovered \u0026ldquo;groups of artists, entrepreneurs, feminists, spiritualists, and friends who opened my eyes to the power of collaboration and a diverse community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduation, Bush plans to continue working on TINA and applying to bioengineering Ph.D. programs. She wants to put her technical and problem-solving skills to work in applying engineering solutions to health care challenges.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the big day approaches, above all else Bush is grateful \u0026mdash; for having not given up, and for finding so many ways to thrive at Tech, which \u0026ldquo;crafted me into the woman and engineer I am today.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduation, Sarah Bush plans to continue working on her startup company and applying to bioengineering Ph.D. programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"After graduation, Sarah Bush plans to continue working on her startup company and applying to bioengineering Ph.D. programs. 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