The third and final Grand Prize winner of this year’s 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is Barbara McClatchey, mother of teenage boy with diabetes living in Collierville, Tennessee. She’s been a computer programmer for many years, and she and her husband both work for FedEx Corp. She’s also been heavily involved in her local JDRF chapter for 11 years, serving on the Board of Directors for the past seven.
Barb was honored for her concept called…
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Today, our second close-up look at one of our three 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge Grand Prize winners. Samantha Gustafson, a 21-year-old industrial design student at the University of Cincinnati, was honored for her design of a bright and appealing glucose meter for small children called Finn the Glucose Fish:
Finn may look simple, but creating that simplicity was hard work. Some of the homework Samantha did for this project might really surprise you. Read on……
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A huge thank you and congratulations to all who participated in our 2010 open innovation contest! Once again we feel that this effort is an example of “crowdsourcing” at its best — asking the community for its brightest concepts to help improve life with diabetes.
This year we received more than 130 unique submissions. Dozens of those were from university students, studying Design, Medicine, Sports Medicine, Engineering, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering and more. In particular,…
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Community voting closes tonight at 6pm Pacific for the 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. Don’t miss your chance to weigh in on this year’s amazing diabetes innovations. Click HERE to vote!
Then what happens? We will tally the votes, and determine our Top 10 finalists. Our full team of judges will have two weeks to carefully review these submissions and make their determinations. (Your votes will tell us who won the Kids and Most Creative categories,…
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Fabulous news today, Friends: We received just over 130 entries in this year’s innovation contest. And the time has finally arrived for…
2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge: Community Voting!
Remember, your votes will determine the winners of the Kids’ Category, and Most Creative Idea Category — who will each receive a $1,000 cash prize.
For the Grand Prize Category, your votes will determine our Top 10 finalists. You currently have 25 semi-finalist entries to browse at…
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