{"675523":{"#nid":"675523","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Iterating Better Therapy Support: Electrosuit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECREATE-X is built to help students integrate entrepreneurship into their academic journey through courses, workshops, and a startup accelerator. This spring, a new set of students displayed their solutions to real-world problems at the I2P Showcase. It\u2019s our privilege to shine a light on and celebrate those journeys. Today\u2019s spotlight focuses on the spring I2P Showcase third-place winners.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EElectrosuit\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAubrey Hall, a first-year biomedical student, and Sherya Chakraborty, a first-year computer science major, founded a startup to produce a garment that eases the use of at-home, prescribed electrical stimulation for people with chronic pain, stroke, and motor impairments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat made you interested in building this solution?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI did research at Northwestern for a couple of years before this, and some of the patients I worked with had severe stroke and spasticity in their arms,\u201d Chakraborty said. \u201cI found out that when they tried using at-home prescribed electrical stimulation, they had trouble setting it off themselves. So, we created a garment to ease pressure on that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat part of the course was most helpful to you?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u201c\u003C\/strong\u003EOne of our mentors, Sun Mi Park, was the first person to patent printable wires on fabric, and that gave us some inspiration to make our garment even more compact, easier to use, and integrate some interesting ideas that we wouldn\u2019t have been able to without our mentors. So, our mentors are honestly the best part of the program,\u201d\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EChakraborty said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor me, you don\u2019t get a lot of chances to apply these engineering courses outside of the classroom,\u201d said Hall. \u201cThis course is a really interesting way to get firsthand experience building a prototype and really understand the engineering process.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u2019s so special about CREATE-X?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think these student projects are the future, and a lot of these projects make it out of college and become actual companies. Giving students that possibility to make a change just from a simple idea and fueling that with funding so we don\u2019t have to take risks out of our own pockets is a, really big deal,\u201d\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EChakraborty said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s helpful to have that safety net, knowing that you have your mentors to back you, and also the people of the program to back you. It brings a lot of security and opportunity to try different things out and not have to be so fearful of failure. Even if you fail a million times, you can get back up and try again,\u201d\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EHall said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u2019s the best insight you\u2019ve gained from doing this?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think one big misconception is that entrepreneurship has a lot to do with finance and business and just lucrative ideas, but it\u2019s pretty important to understand that you can solve a seemingly everyday problem,\u201d said Chakraborty. \u201cIf it affects you or your friends, it\u2019s still worth trying to find a way to solve it, especially backed up with money and mentors from CREATE-X. What\u2019s the harm in trying something out?\u201d\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDon\u2019t try to make it feel like it\u2019s an all-or-nothing project,\u201d Hall said. \u201cYou\u2019re allowed to live your life as a college student but also pursue these interesting ideas and figure out if you enjoy entrepreneurship. It shouldn\u2019t be this daunting task where if you don\u2019t put everything in, you\u2019re going to fail.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s also important to keep an open mind. We might come in with an idea and a very specific way of executing that idea, but we found out through talking with mentors, and with other students and people who gave us advice, that sometimes the idea you come in with is not going to be the same thing you end up with,\u201d\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EChakraborty said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Steps\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve only done four or five prototypes so far,\u201d she noted. \u201cWe want to do at least 12 of those prototypes and keep working with our mentors, keep making connections at Emory, and just constantly getting more and more feedback about our prototypes until we get to a state where we\u2019re satisfied, and we can demo our product and work with physical therapists across Atlanta.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019re a student interested in building your own product for college credit, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/make\/idea-to-prototype\u0022\u003Eapply for I2P\u003C\/a\u003E. 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