From left, Johnson & Wales University students Nicholas Leighton, Cameron Schimer, Dennis Collins, and Patrick Wynn were awarded third prize. 溏心vlog免费B站 photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard to remember coping mechanisms for panic attacks in the moment,\u201d said Noah Johnson, a 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student studying computer engineering from Toledo<\/strong>, Ohio<\/strong>. He and his team members, graduate student Salvatore Latella, of Norwalk<\/strong>, Connecticut,<\/strong> and graduate student Xiangqui Kong, an international student from China<\/strong>, won a $500 cash prize for their invention.<\/p>\nIn third place was the JWU Lab Crew, a group of undergraduate students from Johnson and Wales University. Patrick Wynn, a junior from Cranston<\/strong>, Nicholas Leighton a junior from Mayo<\/strong>, Maryland<\/strong>, Dennis Collins, a senior from Hauppauge<\/strong>, New York,<\/strong> and Cameron Schimer, a senior from Stewartsville, New Jersey<\/strong> created a biometric flex sensor for physical therapy patients. Linked to an app, the sensors can be applied to different parts of the body to provide instant feedback to the patient to ensure they\u2019re properly executing the exercise.<\/p>\n\u201cThe free range to create and do our own thing was great,\u201d said Wynn, a software engineering major. \u201cIt really helped teach me good time management.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout the weekend event, teams met with different mentors from several different disciplines, including those in STEM fields and in business. On the final day of the competition, Sarath Krishnaswamy, the vice president of Digital Engineering at Johnson & Johnson delivered the keynote address.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany people focus on competitions like these as avenues for students to learn about pitching, prototyping, and teamwork, \u201c Krishnaswamy said. \u201cHowever, it is just as important for us on the corporate side to have exposure to new ideas, new faculty and university capabilities, and especially the students themselves so that we can stay connected to the downstream technology and to our future coworkers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Co-organizer Kunal Mankodiya, assistant professor of electrical, computer and bioengineering, said that the competition helps students execute their ideas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn higher education we\u2019re always in a traditional classroom mindset where we learn from books and lectures, which is good,\u201d Mankodiya said.<\/p>\n
This competition is meant to bring student learning to the next level, he added. \u201cDeveloping a mindset for innovation and entrepreneurship seeks different platforms and environments, like HealthHacks, where students can form teams and brainstorm for feasible solutions for real-world problems. This also prepares them for a marketplace demanding the skills of teamwork, leadership, and problem solving,\u201d Mankodiya said.<\/p>\n
“I am extremely proud of the work done by our 溏心vlog免费B站 students who participated in the HealthHacks RI competition last weekend,\u201d said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Donald H. DeHayes. \u201cI was on campus to observe parts of the competition, and I was struck by the high energy, creativity, and passion of all of the student participants. These students represent some of the most creative minds we have to offer, all working collaboratively to improve future health outcomes for people around the world.”<\/p>\n
Emma Gauthier, a student writer in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Marketing and Communications Department and a journalism major, wrote this press release.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KINGSTON, R.I. — September 27, 2018– 溏心vlog免费B站 teams captured the top two spots last weekend in the annual HealthHacks RI competition, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, Delsys, and IEEE, along with 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Colleges of Engineering, Nursing, Health Sciences and Business. Of the 12 teams that competed, the 溏心vlog免费B站 team Wengineers took home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[88,25,4,56],"class_list":["post-74279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-business","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-college-of-health-sciences","tag-college-of-nursing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Team](\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/溏心vlog免费B站-Team-2nd.jpg\")
<\/a>