{"243001":{"#nid":"243001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Grand Challenges Students Code Away Stress","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour second-year students from the Grand Challenges Living and Learning Community took grand prize honors at a \u201ccodeathon\u201d in New York, N.Y.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe competition, which was sponsored by the Clinton Foundation\u2019s Clinton Health Matters Initiative, Jawbone, and Tumblr, challenged participants to create an application that would use Jawbone\u2019s UP wristband to reduce stress. The \u0022GTBuzz\u0022 team was prepared for this challenge through experience in Grand Challenges, where they do work focused on preventing childhood obesity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe application, Buzz, connects to a user\u2019s Google calendar and allows the user to give calendar events specific designations such as \u201ctest\u201d or \u201cmeeting.\u201d The UP wristband then collects data on the user\u2019s sleep patterns and movement throughout the day. Buzz then assigns calendar events \u201cstress scores\u201d to the events based on the health data collected during designated time periods, letting users identify the types of events that cause stress and use stress-reducing techniques accordingly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGTBuzz team members attributed their success to the cross-disciplinary nature of the team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll of the other teams were made up of computer science professionals,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;Patrick Kelly, a second-year business administration major and member of GTBuzz.\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe were the only team of students and the only team that had members from different backgrounds. We were successful because we were each able to think about the challenge differently and could offer different opinions about how to design our solution.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth the Clinton Foundation and Jawbone have expressed interest in continuing to work with the team to develop Buzz at another competition in January 2014, in addition to supporting the team as it continues work on other Grand Challenges projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Grand Challenges program is a living learning community that began last fall and is open to students of all majors. It tasks participants with finding solutions to worldwide issues related to food, water, energy and heatlh.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour second-year students from the Grand Challenges Program took grand prize honors at a codethon in New York, NY.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Four second-year students from the Grand Challenges Program took grand prize honors at a codethon in New York, NY."}],"uid":"27841","created_gmt":"2013-10-07 10:03:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:05","author":"Lauren Spikes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"242991":{"id":"242991","type":"image","title":"GTBuzz Team Members in NYC","body":null,"created":"1449243704","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:44","changed":"1475894919","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:39","alt":"GTBuzz Team Members in NYC","file":{"fid":"197845","name":"gcnyc.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gcnyc_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gcnyc_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":421169,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gcnyc_0.jpg?itok=Oc4H5lsZ"}},"242981":{"id":"242981","type":"image","title":"Grand Challenges Students at Clinton Health Matters Initiative Codeathon","body":null,"created":"1449243704","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:44","changed":"1475894919","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:39","alt":"Grand Challenges Students at Clinton Health Matters Initiative Codeathon","file":{"fid":"197844","name":"533954_10201485103102557_82822287_n.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/533954_10201485103102557_82822287_n_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/533954_10201485103102557_82822287_n_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":51848,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/533954_10201485103102557_82822287_n_0.jpg?itok=TX7fB5sl"}}},"media_ids":["242991","242981"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/grandchallenges.gatech.edu\/","title":"Grand Challenges Living Learning Community"},{"url":"http:\/\/leadership.gatech.edu\/","title":"LEAD Program"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"75971","name":"Clinton Health Matters Initiative Codeathon Series"},{"id":"27471","name":"grand challenges"},{"id":"28841","name":"lead program"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stucomm@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELauren Spikes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["stucomm@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}