{"65862":{"#nid":"65862","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Compose Plan for Worldwide Musical Collaboration","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmidst summer schedules of internships spanning the country,\nthree Georgia Tech women will convene in Hong Kong to compete as semifinalists\nin the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global\nStudent Challenge.\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThird-year students Elizabeth Blumer, Joy Buolamwini and\nSarah Vaden\u2019s team was chosen as one of five from the U.S. to compete in the challenge\nfor its proposed business plan for CrossPath Music. Their idea was to create a\nplace for musicians to practice and collaborate with each other without\ndisturbing the people around them \u2014 and to do it virtually. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt enables you to creatively interact all over the world\nand links creative people together,\u201d Buolamwini said. CrossPath would take\nadvantage of existing technology and allow musicians to use an Xbox or laptop\nto host and join virtual jam sessions and play with musicians all over the\nworld. It envisions a platform that allows users to play a line of music and\ninstantly be presented with a list of complementary musicians with whom they\ncould collaborate online. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSarah and Joy are huge music fans and have that love of\nmusic\u201d that helped spark the idea, Blumer said. Vaden won second place in the\n2010 Georgia Tech Inventure Prize for her pneumatically elevated pitch drum;\nBuolamwini plays guitar and piano. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen they heard about the competition, they were drawn to\nthe prospect of traveling to China if chosen as semifinalists and spending time\ntogether crafting a submission. The three women have been friends since their\nfreshman year but found themselves seeing less and less of each other as they\npursued degrees in business administration, aerospace engineering and computer\nscience. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt started as a crazy idea: Let\u2019s go to China,\u201d said Vaden.\n\u201cI thought we had a good chance of making it, so why not?\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBlumer\u2019s business courses coincided perfectly with the\ncompetition\u2019s timeline; she took accounting in the fall while crunching numbers\nfor their business plan and marketing in the spring as they created a\ncommercial for their product. \u201cIt\u2019s really been a direct application to a real\nproject,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThough the team is confident it has first-mover advantage\nand that their prospective company has value, they\u2019re unsure where CrossPath\nMusic will go from here.\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s some expectation to continue forward, but we\u2019re all\nso busy that we\u2019re just not sure where we\u2019ll take it yet,\u201d Blumer said. Vaden\nis confident there\u2019s a value and place in the market for their idea, and\nBuolamwini has contemplated the prospect of developing the technology or\npatenting part of it to sell. In the meantime, they\u2019ve fulfilled what Buolamwini\ndescribed as her best-case scenario when they decided to enter the competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI thought, \u2018Worst case, we get to hang out together. Best\ncase, we go to China.\u2019\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team will depart for Hong Kong on June 11 to compete for\na $5,000 grand prize and a $1,000 award for the best commercial, filmed and\nsubmitted prior to the competition; the best commercial will be determined by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.polyu.edu.hk\/polyuchallenge\/best_of_the_best_commercial_award\/bbca_voting_process.php?voted_team_id=348\u0026amp;section=1\u0026amp;bbca_year_id=2\u0022\u003Epublic voting\u003C\/a\u003E prior to the semifinal and final round competitions in Hong Kong. The week-long journey will take them not\nonly through the semifinal and final rounds of the Global Student Challenge,\nbut also to tai chi classes, cruises and group projects with the other teams in\nattendance. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOther U.S. teams will come from Carnegie Mellon, Johns\nHopkins, Princeton and Purdue Universities; internationally, students will come\nfrom Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kenya,\nBahrain, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, China, Singapore and the U.K.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThird-year students Elizabeth Blumer, Joy Buolamwini and\nSarah Vaden\u2019s team was chosen as one of five from the U.S. to compete in the PolyU Global Student Challenge\nfor its proposed business plan for CrossPath Music.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Third-year students Elizabeth Blumer, Joy Buolamwini and Sarah Vaden\u2019s team was chosen as one of five from the U.S. to compete in the PolyU Global Student Challenge."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2011-04-29 14:15:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:38","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"66246":{"id":"66246","type":"image","title":"CrossPath Music","body":null,"created":"1449176931","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:08:51","changed":"1475894589","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:09","alt":"CrossPath Music","file":{"fid":"192500","name":"cpm.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cpm_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cpm_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":20360,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cpm_0.png?itok=Tej6uAkc"}},"65959":{"id":"65959","type":"image","title":"Sarah Vaden, Joy Buolamwini, Elizabeth Blumer","body":null,"created":"1449176884","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:08:04","changed":"1475894585","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:05","alt":"Sarah Vaden, Joy Buolamwini, Elizabeth Blumer","file":{"fid":"193273","name":"11e8001-p4-029.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11e8001-p4-029.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11e8001-p4-029.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1258313,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/11e8001-p4-029.jpg?itok=O7xTNgCJ"}}},"media_ids":["66246","65959"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.polyu.edu.hk\/polyuchallenge\/index2.php","title":"PolyU Global Student Challenge"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.polyu.edu.hk\/polyuchallenge\/best_of_the_best_commercial_award\/bbca_voting_process.php?bbca_year_id=2\u0026section=1\u0026voted_team_id=348","title":"Vote for CrossPath Music in the PolyU Commercial Contest"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12986","name":"crosspath music"},{"id":"12350","name":"Georgia Tech InVenture Prize"},{"id":"12985","name":"polyu global challenge"},{"id":"5735","name":"president\u0027s scholarship program"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.shaw@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Shaw\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}