An infant sleeping pad designed to prevent SIDS that Winona State University students created has taken second place and $4,000 in the final round of Microsoft’s U.S. Imagine Cup Project.
The team is still in first place in the People’s Choice part of the competition, which runs through May 19. Voters weigh in using social media such as text messages, Facebook and Twitter.
The pad, called the Cloud Monitor, is designed to help prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and other respiratory diseases using built-in sensors to monitor an infant’s heartbeat, breathing and movement and send the data instantly to a computer or smartphone.
The WSU team, dubbed the “Miracles Workers,” consists of Chase Lundstrom, Parbati Sanjel and Tauseef Hemayet.
A team of Arizona State University Students won the software design category with a program called FlashFood that takes uneaten restaurant and catered meals and reroutes them to nearby families that would otherwise go without food. The team will travel to Sydney, Australia this summer for the international round of the competition.
Imagine Cup People’s Choice voting
To vote for “The Miracle Workers” design, text “Miracle” to 45444, visit The Miracle Workers Facebook page or tweet your vote: @mstechstudent “I am voting for #Miracle in #ICPeoplesChoice.”
Standard texting rates apply.
Individuals can vote once a day until May 19. Those who vote are also eligible for weekly prizes.
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