{"635516":{"#nid":"635516","#data":{"type":"news","title":"McKenzie Tuttle Wins CREATE-X Slot with Sister as Teammate ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Saturday, May 16, nine teams comprised of Emory University and Georgia Tech students pitched solutions to COVID-19 problems in the final round of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eghigt-hackcovid19.devpost.com\/submissions\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEGHI\/GT HACK COVID-19\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;virtual hackathon. Teams presented innovative product ideas to a group of judges from the tech, business, and healthcare fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe hackathon was a partnership between the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.globalhealth.emory.edu\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEmory Global Health Institute (EGHI)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;program. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.med.emory.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEmory University School of Medicine\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;funded the hackathon through its Imagine, Innovate, and Impact (I3) Award program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event began on May 8 when 508 students in 105 teams began working on solutions to COVID-19 problems in eight different tracks, which included an open category, transmission\/PPE, social distancing, workplace impact, supply chain, healthcare delivery, testing, and contact tracing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe top three teams, all comprised of Georgia Tech and Emory students, each won a $10,000 cash prize and enrollment in the summer 2020 CREATE-X Startup Launch. One team pitched an app called CAPACIT, which helps businesses manage new regulations required to open and operate under COVID-19 and helps consumers practice social distancing by alerting them to a store\u0026rsquo;s customer traffic in real time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmory student \u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandra Tuttle\u003C\/strong\u003E, who just finished her first year at the Rollins School of Public Health, made the hackathon a family affair by participating on the same team with her sister \u003Cstrong\u003EMcKenzie Tuttle\u003C\/strong\u003E, who just completed her sophomore year at Georgia Tech in biomedical engineering. The Tuttle sisters and their teammates pitched the winning CAPACIT app. \u0026ldquo;As a public health student, I\u0026rsquo;d been searching for ways to help the community in the midst of the pandemic, and this hackathon seemed like an incredible way to make a tangible difference. I mentioned it in passing to my sister McKenzie. She later reached out saying she had a group from Georgia Tech and asked if I was still interested,\u0026rdquo; says Tuttle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe sisters and their teammates plan to dedicate a portion of their prize money toward developing CAPACIT into a commercially viable product that could help hundreds of communities in their social distancing efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/emory-and-georgia-tech-bring-students-together-solve-covid-19-problems-virtual\u0022\u003ERead about the other winning teams and get\u0026nbsp;the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Emory and Georgia Tech bring students together to solve COVID-19 problems in virtual hackathon"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2020-05-19 18:44:02","changed_gmt":"2020-05-19 18:46:24","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"635515":{"id":"635515","type":"image","title":"The Tuttle Sisters","body":null,"created":"1589913400","gmt_created":"2020-05-19 18:36:40","changed":"1589913416","gmt_changed":"2020-05-19 18:36:56","alt":"The Tuttle Sisters","file":{"fid":"241844","name":"allie_and_mckenzie_tuttle.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/allie_and_mckenzie_tuttle.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/allie_and_mckenzie_tuttle.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":440348,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/allie_and_mckenzie_tuttle.jpeg?itok=clzDViIU"}}},"media_ids":["635515"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1612","name":"BME"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["wrich@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}