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Recap | George Hacks Fourth Annual Medical Solutions Hackathon

2 February 2021

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On January 16th George Hacks hosted its Fourth Annual Medical Solutions Hackathon. For twenty-four hours, 62 participants worked diligently with their teams to design innovative solutions for their chosen problem statement. After which, each team presented their pitches to a group of judges who determined the winners of the competition!

Similar to our previous events this year, our Medical Solutions Hackathon was hosted virtually to ensure the safety of all our participants during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was George Hacks first virtual hackathon and our team worked tirelessly to ensure that we hosted the best event possible for all participants.

The event began with our Opening Ceremonies starring Tammy Landeen as our keynote speaker. She is an incredible individual that is directly impacted by health innovation in her daily life. Tammy is a U.S. Army Veteran and Quality of Life + Challenger, who unfortunately sustained a severe spinal cord injury in 2002 while horseback riding. This injury left her paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. However, despite the challenges she faced, Tammy lives life to the fullest and continues to work with engineers to come up with innovative solutions to any problems she faces. Following her speech, participants were presented with problem statements from representatives of various healthcare organizations. New this year, the pitches are places in one of three tracks:

Assistive Technology. Pitches under this track inspire the development of assistive devices and software to aid providers and patients with effective diagnosis and/or rehabilitation.
Telemedicine. Pitches under this track bring awareness to the challenges faced by healthcare providers who wish to shift their medical practice to a remote setting, especially in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Communication. Pitches under this track motivate solutions to facilitate better communication across the local medical community network so that patients can access care and resources in the most efficient way possible.

While working on their designs, participants were able to book consultations with one of 13 amazing mentors who assisted them in their design and business model plan. In addition to our mentors, the George Hacks team also hosted workshops for students to develop new skills relevant to their projects. These workshops included 3D Modeling, Lean Innovation, Signal Processing, an Introduction to Raspberry Pi, How to Pitch Your Idea, and Machine Learning. To accommodate any time zones or technical difficulties that participants may have, all workshops were recorded and available for teams to review later. In addition to our workshops, the team also hosted three fun activity sessions such as baking night, a game night, and origami!

The next day of the competition was composed of two rounds of judging; a demo round and a pitching round. For the demo round, teams were asked to create a video explaining their design solution to demonstrate their projects and how they came up with a solution for their problem statement. The pitching round, on the other hand, was a live presentation in front of the judges in which teams were able to present their business plans for their solution. The winners of the competition were selected based on their cumulative score from both rounds of judging.

At the end of the competition, we held our closing ceremony in which the Best Overall, Best Demo, and Best Pitch winners were announced alongside our spot prizes for the AI Implementation and Video Creativity.

Below are our winning teams and their project proposals:

Best Overall: Team Creative – Project MedLink
1. Team members: Mohammad Bappy Chowdhary, Maria Luiza Seixas, Nathan Lu, Debabrata Panigrahi
2. People who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHoH) experience barriers when accessing healthcare in emergency situations. Their solution to this problem is MedLink, an interactive app that translates ASL to text or speech, and vice versa. This app would allow doctors, surgeons, and any other hospital/company representatives to directly communicate with members of the DHoH community without requiring translators.
Best Demo: BME Freshies
1. Team members: Lexi Carmine, Brooke Wilson, and Jackson Lamb
2. A self-operational, easy to use retinal imaging device that can be adapted to smartphone models for the purposes of remote patient image examinations. More specifically this device would allow patients to capture clear retinal images from home and send it to their physician to examine rather than going to the clinic/hospitals to get them done.
Best Pitch: Baby Got Hack – TeleRet
1. Jasmine Barash, Kathryn Jaroszynski, Ban Shoukeir, Yahaira Torres
2. A professional retina exam consisting of an interactive app paired with an attachable smartphone lens. The patients can use the lense to take images of their eyes from home with their phones. The paired app is used to ensure that the images taken are of satisfactory quality for a proper examination to be conducted. Additionally the app features patient-doctor video calling.
AI Implementation: Bit Care – ExerciseAI
1. Amit Patel and Ajay Kumar
2. Head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy need to perform exercises in order to prevent atrophy in their jaw muscles. ExerciseAI is a mobile app that uses AI technology to guide patients through a set of exercises as well as track their progress.
Video Creativity: RETiNA
1. Grantt Meredith and Luisa Ribadeneira
2. A telehealth visual acuity mobile application that when paired with a headband offers increased easy use for patients to take images of their eyes using their phone. The app would convert the raw image of the patient’s eye and create a focused image with an alignment confirmation and pupil measurements that the doctors and nurses can use to perform the necessary ocular image analysis

Lastly, Dean Lach, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences delivered the closing remarks followed by Lex McCusker, the Director of the GW Student Entrepreneurship Program who talked about the New Venture Competition 2021. The New Venture Competition (NVC) is one of the largest collegiate competitions nationwide. With over $500,000 in prizes, students have the opportunity to compete in one of three tracks and jump start their entrepreneurial ideas. We highly encourage all of the hackathon participants that are eligible for this competition to join this amazing opportunity. The deadline to sign up is February 3rd at 1 pm! Even if you didn’t win a prize, submit your idea for a chance to participate in workshop opportunities and collaborate with mentors to polish your design and business model.

Although the virtual nature of this event brought forth its own set of challenges, it allowed us to expand our reach internationally! This year’s hackathon had participants from around the world. We had participants from Dubai, India, Brazil, Canada, Russia, and Saudia Arabia!

George Hacks will like to thank all of our event sponsors and partners who helped make this event happen. A special thanks to all of our judges, mentors, and volunteers for their time and support over the course of the weekend. Last, but not least, thank you to our impact-driven participants without whom this event would not have been the success that it was. We hope you continue to support and participate again next year in our Fifth Annual Medical Solutions Hackathon.

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GW Students Win Big at MedHacks

4 October 2020

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Last month, Johns Hopkins University hosted a virtual MedHacks, their annual medical hackathon, on September 4th-6th 2020. This 36-hour design competition brought together participants from around the world to form teams and tackle a project around one of three tracks: Aging in Place with Resilience and Resources, Personalized Medicine Using Data-Driven Healthcare, and Patience Adherence and Quality Care During a Global Pandemic. At the end of the event, competitors had the opportunity to present their innovative solutions on a digital platform.

Two GW senior biomedical engineering students, Faisal Al Munajjed and Sabina Sarinzhipova, participated in the inaugural virtual version of MedHacks. Faisal and Sabina formed a team of 5 by pitching themselves to other MedHacks participants. Their recruits included Azeezah, a senior computer scientist from Connecticut; Sarani, a cyber-security Ph.D. student from Australia; and Dharma, a senior economist from Indonesia. In a completely digital environment, they successfully employed a total of 5 people with various skill sets and opinions.

As a team, they decided to tackle the “Personalized Medicine Using Data-Driven Healthcare” track. Their project took the form of a visual web app designed to support the deaf and hearing-impaired community as well as those with limited digital and English proficiency. This app aims to decrease miscommunication between members of these communities and healthcare professionals using telemedical services. i-Hurt will identify the patient’s pain and interpret its degree using a basic yet effective visual questionnaire. Afterward, a summary of the patient’s symptoms will be sent to their doctor for further assessment.

The inspiration for this project originated in finding a common skill among their team members in that they knew sign language. Sarani was versed in Australian and New Zealand sign language while Faisal and Sabina were familiar with basic American Sign Language. Additional input from various mentors steered them in the direction of creating an app to improve telemedical communication between patients and doctors. Communicating across time zones, they converged on their final proposal: i-Hurt. Their final video proposal was presented to the judges, subsequently winning second place at MedHacks!

According to Faisal, “It was an exhilarating and exhausting experience. In its entire duration, I learned how to work under pressure, made four wonderful friends, met two great mentors, and became skilled in three new programs. It will be one of the most memorable events of my college life.”

Read his full personal account of his experience participating in MedHacks and how his team developed i-Hurt here!

George Hacks Founder, Konstantin Mitic, Launches COVID Mali

28 August 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of people worldwide and left several communities devastated. In response, numerous organizations and teams have emerged to assist first responders combat the spread of disease. Such groups aim to educate and / or equip communities with the tools to stay safe with guidance on good handwashing techniques, physical distancing, and usage of face masks and other PPE. For developing countries, COVID-19 related risks have been more pronounced due to larger population densities, fewer resources, and lower capacity hospitals. Delivering assistance to those areas has thus been especially challenging.

In Mali, the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in late March. Since then, the number of confirmed cases has risen to 2,577. According to UNICEF, over half of the positive COVID-19 cases in the country reside in the capital city, Bamako, prompting the CDC to label the nation as a level 3 (high) risk.

To assist communities in Mali during the pandemic, George Hacks Founder Konstantin Mitic launched COVID Mali. Consisting of “a consortium of skilled professionals in and outside of Bamako working to prevent and slow the transmission of the novel Coronavirus in Mali,” the startup strives to produce and distribute effective PPE to healthcare workers and people of Mali who are vulnerable to the disease.

Over the last few months, COVID Mali has developed prototypes for several types of personal protection equipment (PPE), such as gowns, face shields, 3D printed reporators equivalent to the N95, touchless thermometers, and reusable masks. Once these prototypes have been confirmed by healthcare professionals as viable products, they will work to scale up manufacturing of the items to supply the masses.

For his efforts in establishing COVID Mali, Konstantin was awarded the COVID-19 Student Action Fund by the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U). The award seeks to identify and support “select students at universities around the world who are committed to address the COVID-19 pandemic,” providing between $2,000 to $5,000 to each awardee. Although the foundation received more than 1,400 applications, only 38 recipients were selected. Along with other awardees, Konstantin will be invited to participate in the CGI U 2021 program and attend CGI U 2021 annual event at the University of Edinburgh.

Read more about COVID Mali’s impact on their website!

Meet the 2020-2021 Team!

1 July 2020

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Meet our new team! Recently, we have begun preparing for the fall semester so be sure to stay tuned for everything we have planned for the upcoming year! Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to stay up-to-date on the latest George Hacks news and email us to subscribe to our monthly newsletters!

Lets meet the team!

We are proud to share that amid the coronavirus pandemic, several of our new team members participated in COVID-19 projects to ideate innovative solutions to problems faced by healthcare professionals in our community. If you missed our blog post on COVID-19 projects, read it here and visit out our Projects Page to see how you can get involved!

George Hacks Former and Current Directors, Caitlyn Pratt and Karen Rius, Receive the Neilom Prize for Social Impact

7 June 2020

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George Hacks is proud to congratulate the GW Class of 2020! Each graduate has worked tirelessly to achieve his or her degree and leave a lasting legacy here at GW. Today and always, we celebrate how their dedication to learning and a passion to make a difference in the world have culminated into one outstanding achievement that foreshadows a promising future for society.

Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus pandemic, GW graduates were not able to celebrate their long-awaited commencement ceremony on the National Mall this year. Invited instead to join the 2021 GW Commencement the following year, seniors and graduates were still recognized virtually through a series of videos that aired from May 14th to 17th.

The GW School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) recognized their own seniors in a SEAS Commencement Celebration on May 15th. At the ceremony, faculty members presented awards to recognize students that have made a significant impact on the SEAS community whether academically, socially, or otherwise. Among these awardees were George Hacks Former and Current Directors, Caitlyn Pratt and Karen Rius respectively, both of whom received the Neilom Prize for Social Impact.

The Neilom Foundation was founded in 2013 by GW alumnus Davinder Anand, a Mechanical Engineering Professor Emeritus and Director of the Center of Engineering Concepts Development (CECD) at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Last year, Professor Anand was inducted into the GW Engineering Hall of Fame for his positive contributions to society, one of which is his own Neilom Foundation established in memory of his son Dilip Anand. The foundation’s mission: “To leverage the transformative power of mentoring and education through awards and grants that recognize, encourage and empower young people to generate and explore meaningful ideas and engage in activities with positive social impact that would lead to a better life.” Thus awards given to students from this foundation are in recognition of those who have made a positive social impact and change.

This year marks the inaugural appearance of The Neilom Prize for Social Impact Award at GW. According to the Celebration Program for the 2020 SEAS Commencement Celebration, the award “is given to a junior or senior with a clear and articulated interest in the application of engineering to a particular area of social change.” With Caitlyn and Karen both actively involved in aiding SEAS’s response to the influx of COVID-19 related projects received by the school, we cannot think of any two individuals more deserving. We are proud of their dedication to these initiatives and their commitment to bestowing a positive social impact on the DC community even during this challenging time.

At the end of yet another academic year, George Hacks would like to close by thanking all the students that participated in Kogan Makerspace and our annual Medical Solutions Hackathon. We are also thankful to each of our partners, sponsors, and GW faculty for their continued support of our mission to promote an impact-driven healthcare innovation at GW. It is most certainly because of everyone’s support that George Hacks is the student organization it is today.

George Hacks Responds to COVID-19 Needs

31 May 2020

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During the worldwide pandemic known as COVID-19, many organizations across the GW campus have assumed a role to help the local DC community combat the crisis. Several interdisciplinary groups have teamed up with first responders to ideate innovative solutions ranging from 3D printing PPE to designing informative websites. Surpassing the ambition of these initiatives is the ability for project teams to collaboratively create these impactful designs with limited in-person contact. Some of these teams, in fact, have never met in person.

Several GW students and faculty have been actively working on fabricating 3D printed masks and face shields for medical personnel. This project emerged as a response to the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) that numerous health care facilities across the nation have been facing. As more people test positive in recent months, the demand for PPE has significantly increased across hospitals across the world. When the GW Hospital experienced such a shortage, members from the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), GW Hospital, GW Innovation Center (GWIC), George Hacks, and others pooled resources to work on addressing the need. Leading the 3D printing farm is Mr. Huckenpahler, a digital lab professor from the GW Corcoran School of Art and Design, who along with his team was able to “produce 200 face shields for GW Hospital staff in just under a week” according to an article by GW Today. This monumental task was achieved by twelve 3D printers provided by the GW Corcoran School of the Arts & Design along with an additional six owned by George Hacks and GWIC.

The same article mentions two other projects that students and faculty are working on to assist first responders. One of these projects is the production of N95 comparable respirators with “removable and replaceable units, some of which can be sanitized and reused unlike most N95 respirators.” This design was approved by the hospital’s own quality tests and is now being standardized, scaled to different sizes, and manufactured in bulk.

Another team of students and faculty led by David Lee and Carl Wick, former SEAS professors, is developing a touch-less hospital screening system. Their kiosk design provides a foot-pedal answering system for pre-screening questionnaires and allows one’s temperature to be measured from a distance, appropriately sending staff to the correct waiting areas. Doing so facilitates separation between people with and without fevers in order to vet those who are most likely to test positive for COVID-19.

Team members on this project include George Hacks Co-Founders, Konstantin Mitic and Caitlyn Pratt; former Technical Director, Matt Taylor; and George Hacks Director Karen Rius. With most of the GW campus closed down to the public, Matt transported the project to his apartment located only a few blocks from the GW Hospital. There he created a full workshop in his lounge, allowing him to seamlessly continue contributing to the kiosk project. His proximity to the hospital also provided Matt the convenience to test the kiosk on volunteers in person. Hence, he was able to observe and fix calibration errors in the thermometer before finalizing the systems.

Matt Taylor using the kiosk to measure his temperature.

Aside from the shortage of PPE and lack of contact-free hospital screening methods, another issue that has drastically impacted the work environment of all medical professionals is the lack of a single compilation of latest COVID-19 medical and public health information relevant to their roles as first responders. In response to this need, Jordan Selzer of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Lance Hoffman, a GW computer science professor, recruited a group of SEAS and George Hacks students to design a website named Disaster Consult. According to another GW Today article, this website aims to “give care providers quick, digestible information about best practices in the face of various emergencies,” which is especially valuable for small medical facilities in rural areas at risk of being flooded with numerous patients in a short time. As these types of hospitals typically lack a trauma center, staff with specialized disaster training, and a protocol for dealing with large numbers of patients, it is imperative they have access to reliable updates on the evolving pandemic without having to digest lengthy academic papers.

After the website design had been finalized, more than 50 third and fourth year medical student volunteers, who were unable to conduct their usual hospital rounds due to restrictions imposed by the pandemic, redirected their time towards compiling the content for the website. The tremendous assistance provided by these students allowed the website to be fully functional in under a month. Of course, the website is constantly undergoing development and improvement. Possible translation to a mobile application is expected.

George Hacks is proud to continue supporting the GW community in its endeavors to combat COVID-19. To get involved in some of these initiatives, visit the ‘Projects’ page of our website, or feel free to contact us with questions.

Recap | George Hacks Third Annual Medical Solutions Hackathon

31 January 2020

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The George Hacks Third Annual Medical Solutions Hackathon commenced on the morning of Saturday, January 25th. Beginning at noon, 18 teams worked to devise a solution to one of 12 problem statements pitched by a local healthcare organization. Only twenty-four hours later, teams demonstrated and pitched their solutions for the chance to win prizes.

George Hacks Medical Solutions 2020 Recap Video

The event began with Opening Ceremonies featuring Rob Jones, a U.S. Marine Corps Veteran whose inspirational journey as a double-above-the-knee amputee led him to submit an innovation challenge at the 2019 Medical Solutions Hackathon. Following his keynote speech, representatives of various DMV healthcare organizations presented their problem statements to participants. Soon after, participants formed teams of up to four students and decided upon the challenge they wanted to pursue over the next 24 hours.

Rob Jones | Opening Ceremonies Keynote Speaker

In working through their challenges, students were able to consult with experienced mentors, utilize technical materials, and attend workshops relevant to their projects. Arduino, Raspberry-Pi, 3D Modeling with Fusion 360, and Application Development Workshops allowed teams to integrate a technical aspect into their solutions while a How-to-Pitch-Your-Idea Workshop provided tips on effective communication of those solutions to in a typical entrepreneurial setting.

Arduino Workshop by GW Innovation Center

As the event proceeded into the night, participants found opportunities to break from their projects, including networking with pitch presenters and mentors, grabbing free food from the snack table, attending a free yoga session, and destressing through a midnight nerf gun tournament! A few persistent teams stayed the night adding the final few finishing details to their projects in preparation for the next morning.

Early on Sunday, January 26th, teams prepared for two rounds of judging. The first round was a demo round, in which students were tasked to demonstrate their prototype and/or explain the technicalities of their methods to solve their selected problem statement. Closely following the first judging round was the pitch round, which focused more heavily on the marketability and business plan of each team’s venture. Based on the scores from both rounds, teams were now in the run to win big.

Closing ceremonies saw the presentation of awards to the three highest overall scores as well as two spot prizes, one for Best Implementation of Hardware and another for Best Pitch. GW President Thomas Leblanc delivered closing remarks followed by final comments from the GW Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, GW Technology Commercialization Office, and the GW Innovation Center.

George Hacks would like to acknowledge our event sponsors and partners as well as our judges, mentors, and volunteers for their time and support. Thank you also to our participants who made our event a resounding success. We look forward to seeing you again next year at the George Hacks Fourth Annual Medical Solutions Hackathon in 2021!

Special thank you to our Medical Solutions 2020 sponsors & partners!

For a more detailed event summary, feel free to download our post-event booklet below!

Download our Post-Event Booklet!

2019 MIT DC Grand Hack Recap

12 August 2019

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Three George Hacks team members participated in the MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack DC at the Samsung Solutions Center two weekends ago.

Caitlyn Pratt, Jinbi Tian and Freddie Li took part in the three-day hackathon that partnered with the Veteran’s Health Administration and focused on solutions to help improve care for veteran’s across the country. George Hacks also saw participation in the event from four hackathon veterans, Shubham Gupta, Bianca Karpinecz, Liz Fischer and Emily Cheung.

The event, sponsored by Samsung, took place during the first weekend of August. On Friday, the first day of the event, participants attended an event kickoff, broke out into pitching sessions and formed teams. Teams created their ideas and practiced their pitches on Saturday and final presentations and awards wrapped up the competition on Sunday.

The hackathon consisted of three tracks for participants: access to healthcare, mental health and professional burnout, and rare and orphan diseases. The three George Hacks team members competed in the mental health track, which focused on the areas surrounding mental health diagnoses, prevention and care.

Along with brainstorming and building innovative solutions to various veteran’s health issues, participants of the hackathon heard from four keynote speakers throughout the weekend. Dr. Carolyn Clancy, VHA Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks, John Godfrey, Senior Vice President of Public Policy for Samsung Electronics America, Dr. Jon Bloom, a board-certified physician and entrepreneur, and Dr. Sharad Verma, Director of Research and Development for the Neurofibromatosis TherapyAcceleration Program addressed participants, discussing various topics surrounding veteran’s health and innovation.

L to R: Jinbi, Caitlyn, and Freddie
L to R: Shubham, Liz, Bianca, and Emily

Former George Hacks Participants Take Innovation to the 2019 BMES Coulter College

8 August 2019

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Last weekend, our Social Media Chair, Christianne Chua, and her three teammates represented GW Biomedical Engineering at the 2019 BMES Coulter College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A distinguished program focused on educating students in the “translation of biomedical innovations,” Coulter College recruits “mentors in key problem areas [the 2019 cycle featured structural heart, chronic hypertension, or type 2 diabetes disease management] to guide student teams through a highly dynamic process designed to help them better understand how innovations can meet clinical needs, while providing tools and approaches used to develop novel solutions for identified clinical problems” (read more about BMES Coulter College here). The conference convened at Medtronic facilities and was further supported by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and the Biomedical Engineering Society.

Invitation to the program is highly competitive as only 12 teams comprising 4 students and a single senior design faculty mentor are selected nationwide. Anastasia Carr, Christianne Chua (our Social Media Chair and 2019 Medical Solutions Participant), Camille Daszynski (2019 Medical Solutions Participant), and Mercedes Suazo (2018 Medical Solutions Participant) as well as capstone faculty mentor Dr. David Lee were notified in May of their acceptance into Coulter College and assigned type 2 diabetes disease management.

From there, an intensive period of preparation began for the team. After compiling a lengthy pre-assignment researching their assigned disease, conducting clinician interviews, and attending multiple BMES-hosted webinars, the GW quartet whittled down their 20-page deliverable into several need statements required by program coordinators upon arrival to Minneapolis.

From Thursday afternoon through Sunday morning, the team experienced a completely immersive agenda of lectures, facility tours, and professional meetings with a diverse panel of clinicians, industry leaders, business mentors, designers, and venture capitalists. This intensive series of scheduled activities allowed the GW team to tailor its final design towards the guiding goals of promoting greater affordability, personalization, and actionability within the type 2 diabetes community. In a collaborative effort, they worked day and night to conceptualize a solution that best fit around the need for patients to remain motivated in chronic management of lifestyle. Each day, the team was expected to present additional components of device design, intellectual property, regulatory landscape, and business model to a cohort of judges.

Congratulations to the team for their strong performance throughout the program! We wish you the best start to your senior year and cannot wait to see where this experience takes you!

Left to right: Dr. David Lee, Anastasia Carr, Mercedes Suazo, Christianne Chua, and Camille Daszynski.
Medtronic Headquarters, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
GW Team with a Medtronic mentor.

2019 GW Summer Start-up Accelerator Program Recap

29 July 2019

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Three George Hacks affiliated teams pitched their ventures in the Showcase and Demo Day on July 18 as they wrapped up their summer program with the GW Summer Startup Accelerator (SSA), a program run by the GW Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The George Hacks affiliated participants included, our co-founder and former director, Michael Ready, our web developer, Sam Bunger and two former George Hacks participants, Jagan Doodala and Christian Trummer. Their ventures include Vaulted Vinyl, Voxion and WATTerWagon, respectively.

At the Showcase and Demo day, all participants in the SSA were given a chance to pitch ideas to a group of over 20 angel investors and venture capitalists. The 2019 GW Summer Startup Accelerator Investors included Amanda Antico, Founder and CEO at EvolvED, John Burke, Founder at True Ventures, Wayne Chen, Edge Tech – Ventures Director at Booz Allen Hamilton, and many more. The complete list of investors can be found here.

Congratulations to all of the teams for a successful finish to the program and we wish them luck as they proceed with the rest of their future ventures.