{"id":75165,"date":"2019-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-develop-innovative-solutions-to-sleep-deprivation-at-healthhacksri\/"},"modified":"2019-10-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-develop-innovative-solutions-to-sleep-deprivation-at-healthhacksri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/uri-students-develop-innovative-solutions-to-sleep-deprivation-at-healthhacksri\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students develop innovative solutions to sleep deprivation at HealthHacksRI"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 29, 2019 \u2013 According to a survey conducted in 2018 of nearly 400,000 people,\u00a0roughly one-third of Americans sleep fewer than six hours per night. With sleep being linked to\u00a0cognitive and physical health, solutions to sleep deprivation are needed.<\/p>\n

The 2019 HealthHacksRI event, held at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Oct. 5-6, challenged students to identify a specific issue related to sleep, design a solution that would alleviate the problem and pitch the idea\/product to a panel of judges.<\/p>\n

Twenty-nine students from 溏心vlog免费B站 and the\u00a0University of Massachusetts Dartmouth participated in this year’s hackathon.<\/p>\n

“Their projects spanned\u00a0the continuum from using no technology to being primarily technical,” said Deedee Chatham, director of entrepreneurship, innovation and undergraduate research at 溏心vlog免费B站. “The ideas, teamwork, business models, and technical innovations were exceptional.”<\/p>\n

\"Judges\"<\/a>
The judges, from left, were Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian, Amir Amiri, Paul Zuchowski, Chris Patel and Sue Adams. 溏心vlog免费B站 photo by Mike Salerno.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A five-person team of 溏心vlog免费B站\u00a0industrial and systems engineering students captured first place and the $1,000 prize for their product “Sustain-a-Baby.”<\/p>\n

The team was comprised of\u00a0Nancy Alvarez, from Warwick<\/strong>; Kelly Domogala, from Southbury, Connecticut<\/strong>; Robyn Johnson, from Elsah, Illinois<\/strong>; Megan St. Hilaire, from Rumford<\/strong>; and\u00a0May Tran, from Woonsocket<\/strong>. The second- and third-place teams were also from 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n

“It was nice a surprise that our team was recognized for all the hard work, time and effort we put into our idea and presentation,” said Domogala, who is a senior.<\/p>\n

The team’s\u00a0Sustain-a-Baby concept was based on parents\u2019 lack of sleep when newborns stay awake.<\/p>\n

“Our approach was to create a way for people to rent sleep technology and products,” said Domogala. “This business model would lower the costs for the customers and enable all of the products to be reused. The rental system would also help the environment because multiple families would use a single product over a span of years, when these products are usually only used for a few months.”<\/p>\n

Each of the group\u00a0members took on a different task. Domogala created a functional website. Johnson did a cost analysis. Alvarez researched products that could be rented. Tran looked into liability issues. St. Hilaire researched data about sleep deprivation among new parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew how profitable the \u2018rent instead of buy\u2019 model could be if used correctly,\u201d said Johnson, who is also majoring in Spanish through 溏心vlog免费B站 International Engineering Program. \u201cOnce a child outgrows an expensive sleeping product, such as a $1,200 bassinet, it can be returned to us and re-rented to another family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hackathon format is designed to prompt students to think and act like an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n

“Throughout the hackathon, I learned a lot about brainstorming, creating new business models and coming\u00a0up with innovative ideas,” said\u00a0Domogala.<\/p>\n

The judges for the event were Sue Adams, professor of human development and family studies at 溏心vlog免费B站; Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian, assistant professor of computer science and statistics at 溏心vlog免费B站; Paul Zuchowski, senior software engineer at Datto, Inc.; Chris Patel, principal at Uplift Innovation, Inc.; and Amir Amiri of Draeger Medical.<\/p>\n

This was Adams’ first time being involved in a hackathon at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n

“As a sleep researcher and clinician, I was so pleased that this subject that everyone has some level of familiarity with was the theme,” said Adams. “The specific topics the students chose were very diverse and allowed the groups to focus on an area of interest to them,\u00a0ranging from families to occupational hazards.”<\/p>\n

Throughout the competition, the students were able to share their ideas and receive feedback from 12 mentors who represented academia and industry.<\/p>\n

“The students demonstrated the utmost professionalism during their pitches, making it clear to me that they fully utilized their mentoring to prepare for their pitch,” stated Adams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Place<\/strong><\/td>\nTeam<\/strong><\/td>\nStudents<\/strong><\/td>\nMajor<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
First Place<\/strong><\/td>\nSustain-a-Baby<\/td>\nNancy Alvarez<\/td>\nIndustrial & Systems Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$1,000<\/td>\n<\/td>\nKelly\u00a0Domogala<\/td>\nIndustrial & Systems Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nRobyn\u00a0Johnson<\/td>\nIndustrial & Systems Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nMegan\u00a0St. Hilaire<\/td>\nIndustrial & Systems Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nMay Tran<\/td>\nIndustrial & Systems Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second Place<\/strong><\/td>\nSleep Nano-Sensor<\/td>\nMohammad Moein\u00a0Safaee<\/td>\nPharmacy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$500<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNegar\u00a0Rahmani<\/td>\nNeuroscience<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Third Place<\/strong><\/td>\nSleep Safe<\/td>\nAlexandra\u00a0Duntzee<\/td>\nBiomedical Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$250<\/td>\n<\/td>\nJohn Hunter<\/td>\nComputer Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nKiera\u00a0Mantyla<\/td>\nBiomedical Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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All of the students in the top three teams were from 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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