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Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
NCIIA National Collegiate Inventor s & Innovator s Alliance
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table of contents WELCOME 02 / The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center + NCIIA TEAMS 04 / AssureFit Chest Tube Stabilization Device 04 / Assured Safety Drill 05 / CleanNG LLC 05 / Engineering2Empower 06 / FastStitch 06 / HESE Affordable Greenhouses 07 / Ligadon 07 / MAID (Magnetically Assisted Intubation Device) 08 / MaxQ LLC 08 / mSurvey 09 / Project Gado 09 / Sanergy 10 / Serionix 10 / Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam / 02 /
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ABOUT 11 / NCIIA, The Lemelson Foundation 12 / The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center + National Museum of American History
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Showcasing NCIIA’s best student e-teams
[minds] March 22, 2013 We thank our principal sponsor
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from The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation is proud to welcome NCIIA’s Open Minds to the halls of the National Museum of American History. We congratulate NCIIA’s best student teams and emerging startups on being invited to present at the Open Minds showcase. We hope you enjoy your experience! Hosting Open Minds is a natural extension of the mission of the Lemelson Center to encourage the exploration of invention and innovation and encouraging inventive creativity in young people. All of us at the Center applaud the selected teams’ ingenuity and look forward to the lively discussion their inventions will inspire. Arthur Molella Director The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
NCIIA The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) is proud to present Open Minds 2013, a showcase of outstanding student E-Teams and their emerging startups. Each of these teams is working to bring inventive new technologies to impact through commercialization. As you visit the teams you’ll see prototypes of inventions and innovations on their way to making a difference in the world, many of which are being revealed to the public for the first time. The exhibiting team members are here to showcase and demonstrate their ideas. Your questions are encouraged! NCIIA is delighted to partner with The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in hosting this year’s Open Minds exhibition. We are grateful to our principal sponsor The Lemelson Foundation, whose generous support of invention, technology innovation and entrepreneurship in higher education enables these inventors to realize their vision.
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Enjoy this exciting opportunity to discover innovative ideas and glimpse the future at Open Minds 2013! Phil Weilerstein Executive Director NCIIA
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Assured Safety Drill Harvard University A handheld, handheld,portable, portable, and and reliably reliably safesafe drilling can create holes in in drillingdevice devicethat that can create holes the size drill bit.bit. the skull skullwith withany any size drill nciia.org/assuredsafetydrill
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AssureFit Chest Tube Stabilization Device Clemson University A device devicedesigned designedtoto increase increase stability stability and dislodgment for for and reduce reducethe therisk riskofof dislodgment chest chest tube tubeinsertions. insertions. nciia.org/assurefit
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Engineering2Empower University of Notre Dame A safe, permanent housing safe,affordable, affordable, permanent housing solusolution developingworld world tion for for thethe developing consisting earthquakeconsistingofoflightweight, lightweight, earthquakeand hurricane-resistant concrete panels. and hurricane-resistant concrete panels. nciia.org/e2e nciia.org/engineering2empower
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CleanNG LLC Oklahoma State University A new newnatural naturalgas gas fuel fuel storage storage system system that fuel to to be be stored in a in a that allows allowsmore more fuel stored smaller smallerspace. space. nciia.org/cleanng
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HESE Affordable Assured Safety Drill Greenhouses Harvard University
A handheld, portable, and reliably safe Pennsylvania University drilling device thatState can create holes in Affordable, easy-to-build greenhouse kits the skull with any size drill bit. designed for small farmers in Africa.
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FastStitch Chest Tube AssureFit Stabilization Device Johns Hopkins University Team Archon Medical's FastStitch device Clemson University helps surgeons close the wound created by A device designed to increase stability open abdominal surgery more safely, easily, and reduce the risk of dislodgment for and consistently.
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MAID (Magnetically Engineering2Empower Assisted Intubation Device) University of Notre Dame A safe, affordable, permanent housing soluGeorgia of Technology tion for theInstitute developing world A device that simplifies the consisting of lightweight,intubation earthquakeprocedure by using a system of magnets and hurricane-resistant concrete panels. to guide the endotracheal tube into the trachea. nciia.org/engineering2empower
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CleanNG LLC Ligadon University State Oklahoma of Utah University A more new natural effectivegas solution fuel storage for ligament system and surgeries thattendon allows recombination more fuel to be storedthat in a prevents tissue from tearing under strain. smaller space. nciia.org/cleanng nciia.org/ligadon
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Teams AI
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Assured Safety Drill mSurvey Massachusetts Harvard University Institute A handheld, of Technology portable, and reliably safe drilling A platform device for using that text-messaging can create holes in technology to survey communities the skull with any size drill bit. in developing countries via mobile phones.
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MaxQ LLCChest Tube AssureFit Stabilization Device Oklahoma State University A series of multi-use, lightweight, insulated Clemson University shipping containers with much larger A device designed to increase stability maximum usable volume, higher insulation and reduce the risk of dislodgment rating and higher impact resistance thanfor chest insertions. currenttube containers.
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Engineering2Empower Sanergy Massachusetts University of Notre Institute Dame A safe, of Technology affordable, permanent housing solution A micro-franchised for the developing network world of low-cost sanitation designed specifically consistingcenters of lightweight, earthquakefor slums. andurban hurricane-resistant concrete panels. nciia.org/engineering2empower nciia.org/sanergy
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CleanNGGado Project LLC Johns Hopkins Oklahoma State University University A new An inexpensive natural archival gas fuelscanning storagerobot system that can fragile images, thatautomatically allows morelift fuel to be storedplace in a them on space. a scanner, and scan them into a smaller database at full archival-quality resolution.
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Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology NCIIA is proud to include a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam in Open Minds 2013, and to provide the opportunity for this high school team to exhibit along with collegiate E-Teams. This student team is working to develop an emotive aid for combating autism.
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Serionix University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign An economical and efficient way of removing perchlorate from water in point-of-use treatment units such as pitchers or faucet filters.
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about
NCIIA
The Lemelson Foundation
The NCIIA supports technology innovation and entrepreneurship in universities and colleges to create experiential learning opportunities for students and successful, socially beneficial businesses. The NCIIA provides grants, entrepreneurship and venture training labs, mentoring, investment advice, and other resources to faculty and students. With a membership of nearly 200 colleges and universities from across the United States, the NCIIA engages more than 5,000 students each year, leveraging their respective campuses as working laboratories and incubators, ultimately helping them to bring their inventions to commercialization.
The Lemelson Foundation uses the power of invention to improve lives, by inspiring and enabling the next generation of inventors and invention-based enterprises in order to build a stronger US economy and create social and economic change for the poor in developing countries. Founded in the 1990’s by prolific independent US inventor Jerome Lemelson and his wife Dorothy, the Foundation works to ensure a robust pipeline of inventors, inventions and invention-based enterprises. Additionally, the Foundation works to strengthen the ecosystem that cultivates inventors while also helping them to translate their ideas to inventions with impact. Within the geographies of their work, the US and developing countries, the Foundation supports programs that inspire youth to become inventors,
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stimulate and provide invention and entrepreneurship education, and support the launch, earliest incubation and mentoring of invention-based enterprises. For more information, please visit lemelson.org.
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The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center
National Museum of American History
The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation’s activities advance scholarship on the history of invention, share stories about inventors and their work and nurture creativity in young people. The Center embodies a philosophy akin to that of the inventors we study, of valuing creativity and embracing the potential rewards of intellectual risk-taking. The Center is located at the National Museum of American History and supported by The Lemelson Foundation, a private philanthropy established by one of the country’s most prolific inventors, Jerome Lemelson, and his family. Places of Invention, a 3,500 squarefoot exhibition exploring hot spots of invention from the mid-19th century to the present, and Spark!Lab, a hands-on invention workshop, are scheduled to open at the Museum in 2015. For more information on the Lemelson Center, visit invention.smithsonian.org.
The National Museum of American History collections include many significant inventions, including Edison’s phonographs, a portion of Bell’s original telephone and a Jobs and Wozniak Apple I computer. Museum artifacts also include approximately 10,000 patent models—one of the most comprehensive collections in any public institution. The museum’s Archives Center contains materials that complement the artifacts and support the study of many different aspects of American life. Important invention-related collections include the George H. Clark “Radioana” collection related to the industrial development of the radio and the Earl S.Tupper papers describing the invention and marketing of Tupperware. Through the Lemelson Center’s support, the Archives Center has increased its
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collections of personal papers and business records documenting the history of American enterprise, innovation and technology. The National Museum of American History collects, preserves and displays American heritage in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. The museum is currently renovating its west exhibition wing with new galleries on American business, democracy and culture; new spaces for the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation; and a Hall of Music for live performances. The museum is located at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue N.W., and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (closed Dec. 25). Admission is free. http://americanhistory.si.edu.
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