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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The 2011 winner of the InVenture Prize at Georgia Tech is the Slide Capo, designed by Industrial Design student Daniel Chaney. Slide Capo is a new twist on a guitar capo that can create unique sounds.
As the winner of this year’s completion, Chaney took home $15,000 in prize money and a free U.S. patent filing by Georgia Tech’s Office of Technology Licensing each valued at approximately $20,000.
Magnetic Assisted Intubation Device (MAID) finished second and received $10,000 in prize money. MAID is a medical device designed to facilitate the procedure of placing a breathing tube into the trachea. Team members included Alexander Cooper, Shawna Marie Hagen. William Jacob Thompson and Elizabeth Ann Flanagan, all Biomedical Engineering (BME) students. BME.
The $5,000 People’s Choice Award was presented to the AutoRhexis team, which created an innovative instrument designed to improve cataract surgery. Team members included Christopher Giardina, BME, Rebeca Bowden, BME, Jorge Baro, BME, Kanitha Kim, Mechanical Engineering (ME), Khaled Kashlan, BME and Shane Saunders, ME.
