{"634109":{"#nid":"634109","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Three Tech Teams Among Winners in MIT COVID-19 Challenge Event","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech interdisciplinary engineering student teams were among the four declared winners in their category at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19challenge.mit.edu\/\u0022\u003EMIT COVID-19 Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19challenge.mit.edu\/about\/\u0022\u003Eevent\u003C\/a\u003E held April 3-5. The online, virtual hackathon event attracted 1,500 people, creating 240 teams, which competed for monetary prizes, computing resources, organizational support, and direct access to key partners to further develop, validate and implement solutions developed. The 2020 MIT COVID-19 Challenge attracted more than 50 partnering organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeams could participate in one of 10 Covid-19 healthcare-related tracks. Judges selected the \u0026ldquo;final four\u0026rdquo; winners for each of the ten tracks to receive prize money and support for their presentations and ideas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe three\u0026nbsp;winning Georgia Tech teams were:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedlynk\u003C\/strong\u003E, a five-person Georgia Tech team, won for their tracking model focused at the county level that pulls from multiple live data sources to allow hospitals to predict their personal protected equipment (PPE) burn rate, and identifies hospitals in critical need to help suppliers prioritize hospitals needs and more appropriately direct their supplies of PPE equipment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Medlynk team won in the Hospital Assets Coordination, and Distribution category.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winning members of the team included: \u003Cstrong\u003EMike Adamo\u003C\/strong\u003E (BME), \u003Cstrong\u003EBrandon D\u0026rsquo;arienzo\u003C\/strong\u003E (ME), \u003Cstrong\u003EMaximilian Hollister\u003C\/strong\u003E (BME), \u003Cstrong\u003ESebastian Hollister\u003C\/strong\u003E (CS), and \u003Cstrong\u003EAkash Moozhayil \u003C\/strong\u003E(ME).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPopTracker\u003C\/strong\u003E, a seven-person team with six Georgia Tech students, won for designing a low-cost mesh network system of devices to report population densities in public transport by polling train cars for Wi-Fi signals from devices, which then sends the information to a web application\u0026#39;s database for analysis, visualization and public use. Public transit users can then go online to see live data for where they should go for the least crowded train possible to maintain social distancing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe popTracker team won in the Impact of Social Distancing and Quarantine category.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winning members of the team included: \u003Cstrong\u003EThomas Beckler\u003C\/strong\u003E (BME), \u003Cstrong\u003ERicardo Meizoso\u003C\/strong\u003E (ME), \u003Cstrong\u003ENick Mirchandani \u003C\/strong\u003E(ID), \u003Cstrong\u003ELeo Ricci\u003C\/strong\u003E (CS), \u003Cstrong\u003EDavis White\u003C\/strong\u003E (BME), \u003Cstrong\u003EJaime Vera\u003C\/strong\u003E (BME), and \u003Cstrong\u003EOlivia Khan \u003C\/strong\u003E(co-founder, Generous Labs in Germany).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReRoute\u003C\/strong\u003E, a six-person Georgia Tech team, won for reducing the chance of COVID-19 transmission within a hospital setting. The team developed a new term called \u0026ldquo;clinical distancing.\u0026rdquo; In order to do this, their solution called reRoute, is implemented by scanning passive RFID tags already worn by staff and patients to track personnel flow within the hospital. The tags carry a unique COVID-19 risk factor, generated by analyzing intrinsic and extrinsic health risks with which the users have interacted. Their algorithm then determines the optimal path for moving patients along the relevant hallways and in testing rooms while interfacing with local sensors to redirect traffic and notify custodial units when and where sanitization is needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe reRoute team won in the COVID-19 Treatment and Management category.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winning members of the team included: \u003Cstrong\u003EManshi Baskaran\u003C\/strong\u003E (BME), \u003Cstrong\u003ESrujani Das\u003C\/strong\u003E (BME), \u003Cstrong\u003ESaisamhitha (Sam) Dasari\u003C\/strong\u003E (BME), \u003Cstrong\u003EPrahlad Iyengar\u003C\/strong\u003E (EE), \u003Cstrong\u003ESambhav Jain\u003C\/strong\u003E (BME), and \u003Cstrong\u003ERuturaj Patil\u003C\/strong\u003E (ME).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Three Georgia Tech interdisciplinary teams win global virtual hackathon"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2020-04-06 19:24:13","changed_gmt":"2020-04-07 18:06:22","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"634107":{"id":"634107","type":"image","title":"Medlynk","body":null,"created":"1586200800","gmt_created":"2020-04-06 19:20:00","changed":"1586286275","gmt_changed":"2020-04-07 19:04:35","alt":"The winning members of the Medlynk team included: (top row)\u00a0Mike Adamo (BME), Brandon D\u2019arienzo (ME), Maximilian Hollister (BME), (bottom row)\u00a0Sebastian Hollister (CS), and Akash Moozhayil (ME).","file":{"fid":"241290","name":"Team Medlynk-all.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Team%20Medlynk-all.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Team%20Medlynk-all.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":361722,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Team%20Medlynk-all.jpg?itok=ub4blbff"}},"634108":{"id":"634108","type":"image","title":"ReRoute","body":null,"created":"1586200936","gmt_created":"2020-04-06 19:22:16","changed":"1586286366","gmt_changed":"2020-04-07 19:06:06","alt":"The winning members of the reRoute team included: (top row)\u00a0Manshi Baskaran (BME), Srujani Das (BME), Saisamhitha (Sam) Dasari (BME), (bottom row)\u00a0Prahlad Iyengar (EE), Sambhav Jain (BME), and Ruturaj Patil (ME).","file":{"fid":"241291","name":"Route Team-all.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Route%20Team-all.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Route%20Team-all.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":811653,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Route%20Team-all.jpg?itok=nBDnCxzU"}},"634148":{"id":"634148","type":"image","title":"PopTracker","body":null,"created":"1586282578","gmt_created":"2020-04-07 18:02:58","changed":"1586286324","gmt_changed":"2020-04-07 19:05:24","alt":"The winning members of the popTracker team included: (top row)\u00a0Thomas Beckler (BME), Ricardo Meizoso (ME), Nick Mirchandani (ID), Leo Ricci (CS), (bottom row)\u00a0Davis White (BME), Jaime Vera (BME), and Olivia Khan (co-founder, Generous Labs in Germany).","file":{"fid":"241304","name":"PopTracker team.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PopTracker%20team.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PopTracker%20team.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":373597,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PopTracker%20team.jpg?itok=o7T-TUA3"}}},"media_ids":["634107","634108","634148"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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