Today, meet the Grand Prize winners of the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge, two graduate students who came up with the $10,000 idea for improving life with this illness. CONGRATULATIONS!
They are:
Eric Schickli, a 23-year-old grad student in Northwestern University’s Engineering Design and Innovation masters program (essentially a combined design and engineering program), and an aspiring product design engineer.
and
Samanatha Katz, a 26-year-old grad student majoring in Healthcare Enterprise Management, Marketing, and Design through a…
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Following on Monday’s announcement of our 2009 Design Challenge winners, today begins a series of “back-end” coverage of the great variety of innovative ideas we received. Look for more details on our winners later this week. Grand Prize winners Eric Schickli and Samantha Katz will be here talking about their inspiration for the revolutionary LifeCase & LifeApp system, and their plans to move it forward.
For today, I thought it would be fun to share…
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A huge congratulations and thank you to all who participated in this open innovation contest! This is truly “crowdsourcing” at its best — asking the community for its brightest ideas on how to improve life with diabetes.
At final toll, we received over 150 entries from participants describing themselves as:
Students – in Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Biotechnology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Biology, and Business
Electronic and computer engineers
Graphic designers
Entrepreneurs
Medical device…
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Today is the final day to enter the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. You have until 11:59pm Pacific time to submit your brilliant idea for a new device or web tool to make life with diabetes better.
We have a great batch of tantalizing new concepts coming in…
See the video entries to date here:
http://www.youtube.com/group/DBMine2009Contest
and the
paper entries to date here:
http://www.scribd.com/group/71420-2009-diabetesmine-design-challenge
ENTER THE CONTEST here.
Meet our judges by reading their interviews…
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