TECH XPLORE

1. TECH XPLORE Shanice Bourne Marjorie Constant Stephanie Townsend Shenice James Santia Leroy Bobby Barnes

2. Powerpoint Presentation Project Guidelines • B. (Roles of team members)- Shanice Bourne, Bobby Barnes, Santia Leroy and Shenice James: Researchers. Stephanie Townsend: Team Leader Marjorie Constant: Graphic Designer. (STRENGTHS & INTEREST OF TEAM MEMBERS)- Stephanie Townsend: Consistency. Making sure everything is done precisely. Marjorie Constant: Leadership Shanice Bourne: Making sure the work is completed and done correctly. Santia Leroy: Creativity Bobby Barnes: Creativity Shenice James: Determination.

3. Shanice Bourne Nickname: Barbie Age: 17 Personality: Outgoing Sign: Gemini Goal: To become a pediatrician/model College: FSU

4. Bobby Barnes Nickname: YuNg_StArR Age: 16 Personality: easygoing Sign: Capricorn Goal: To be the best I can be College: UCLA

5. Santia Leroy Nickname: Tia Age: 16 Personality: Goofy Sign: Cancer Goal: To get a scholarship College: UCF

6. Marjorie Constant Nickname: Marj Age: 17 Personality: Laidback Sign: Aquarius Goal: To get straight “A’s” College: Spelman

7. Stephanie Townsend Nickname: Age: 17 Personality: Original Sign: Libra Goal: To be successful College: M.I.T. Hobby: Singing/Dancing

8. Shenice James Nickname: Neicy Age: 17 Personality: Funny Sign: Virgo Goal: To become a doctor College: FSU

9. Getting Started: Define the problem/brainstorm with your Mentor • The problemin the project was individuals who have heart and seizure problems. It affects the people who live a daily life with these complication because it results in them not having a normal and active lifestyle. If the problem were to go unsolved, many individuals would have to go on living with these health problems that could actually be altered. • A problem in the community currently is people getting laid off from their jobs. Technology cannot necessarily fix this issue, the president can.

10. Research & Investigation • The possibilities of the 3 design ideas for the solution to work out is likely because they were very well thought of and it was a group effort. The ideas are as followed: 1.) Using loose-loop devices that actively record biological signals. Then process these signals in a good amount of time to detect evidence of an impending seizure onset, and then trigger an interference. 2.) Having electrodes that record intracranial EEG as a contribution to the steps that establishes when a heart attack has started or about to come, and it triggers focal electrical stimulus to prevent or arrest clinical seizures/heart attacks. 3.) Personalized training periods in which the patient is trained on operating the device to work correctly and at the convenient time. *The mentor approved of everything.*

11. Analyze and Refine Ideas for the Best Solutions • The one solution the group have decided to confer is solution number two which is having electrodes that record intracranial EEG as a contribution to the steps that establishes when a heart attack has started or about to come, and it triggers focal electrical stimulus to prevent or arrest clinical seizures/heart attacks. • The technology being used is Neurostimulators and Cardiac Defibrillators. This technology is based on existing technology which was created by WCStacey who is a Postdoctoral Fellow and B Litt who is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Epilepsy and Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. They created this technology to come about on a way to help detect seizures before they occur. The technology is called the NeuroPace Responsive Neurostimulator System. The feedback was positive and motivating. I believe she feels it will work.

12. Development &Implementation • The researchers developed the device by applying previously used biometric techniques to their idea. • The researchers drew up a blueprint of what the computer chip would look like. Then they applied the same techniques used in making memory cards and GPS systems. • This is so because the chip was designed record and locate the presence of a seizure and/or heart attack before it occurs. • With the implementation of a GPS system to a memory card our device can notify the police when a seizure/heart attack occurs…similar to OnStar in a car

13. Lessons Learned • The parts of the process that were helpful as we did our project was having available information on the technology and technology we were going to use to create the device. The parts that failed was getting in depth on the specific technological methods and process that would be involved for creating the device. What we would have done better the next time was contacting the actual doctors and researchers who were conducting the experiment already to get some assistance on creating our new technology that was somewhat based on theirs. • The project helped the students gain much knowledge about technology because we were all introduce to current and new technology being used to help humans and their specific health complications. Also researching and working together to come up of ways to create our new device helped for us to think critically and logically.

14. Mentor/ Biography/Technology Careers • We were not able to get in contact with the mentor. • 3 technology careers that would be involved in making the technology is neurologists, medical scientists, and neuropsychologists. The education that neurologist need to have is four years of premedical education in a college or university, four years of medical school resulting in an MD or DO degree (doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy degree) , one year internship in either internal medicine or medicine/surgery, and at least at least 3 years of specialty training in an accredited neurology residency program. For neuropsycholgists, students have to complete their undergraduate bachelor’s degree in psychology, completing a doctorate program in neuropsychology/receiving a post graduate certificate in neuropsychology, and then they are placed in an internship. And for medical researchers, they need to obtain a Ph.D in biological sciences.