The College of Engineering is proud to congratulate the winners of the Georgia Tech’s 2011 InVenture Prize contest.  The InVenture Prize is an innovation competition for Georgia Tech undergraduate students who work independently or in teams to create inventions that are presented and judged by a panel of experts. 

This year, Daniel Chaney’s “Slide Capo” received the first place award, while “Magnetic Assisted Intubation Device” (MAID) took home the second place prize.  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.  The team was awarded $10,000 in prize money for their creation. 

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.