February 7-13, 2014 Asian Journal - (619) 474-0588 Visit our website at http://www.asianjournalusa.com Page 13 Trends Prepare. Stay Safe. Rebuild. Tech IT by Mike Sharon, FEMA chemical spill into the Elk River in West Virginia. from My Barber Sounds like it could be a new Ready When I arrived at the Franklin Insti- Campaign, doesn’t it? But, actually, it’s tute I could immediately feel the energy by Benjamin Maynigo the tag line for this year’s FIRST Lego and boundless enthusiasm of the teams, League (FLL) Competition challenge: their coaches and the volunteers. We “Nature’s Fury.” paused for the Opening Ceremony and Here’s the background: In early fall Pledge of Allegiance after an initial of each year, FLL releases their chal- round of project, robot design and core VisualDx: A Miracle Medical Tool lenge, based on a real-world scientifi c values judging. Judging continued I love attending conferences that half of all medical schools, including topic. Teams of up to ten children, along until just after lunch and then the focus involve technologies. I never miss the Harvard, Yale, UCLA, NYU and many with an adult coach, enter the chal- shifted to the robot competition tourna- International CES conference held in more. VisualDx is truly changing how lenge and compete by programming an ment. The robot tournament room was Las Vegas, Nevada annually during we learn and practice medicine. The autonomous robot to score points on a sheer pandemonium—teams, coaches winter and its Mid-Year Conference in days of memorizing everything are themed playing fi eld (Robot Game) and and volunteers all cheered wildly and New York every summer. now long gone. Like Epocrates is to developing a solution to a problem they encouraged the teams as they participat- My goal was always to look for new medication dosing, VisualDx is the most have identifi ed (The Project Presenta- ed in the competition round. The action products, apps, or technologies that fall important app that doctors need in their tion) guided by FLL Core Values during paused at the end of the robot competi- under the description “Miracle, Magic, toolbelt for both diagnosis and therapy an offi cial tournament. tion so that the fi nal tournament results or Mind-Boggling Technologies”. I guidance.” In the 2013 Nature’s Fury Challenge, could be tallied but the energy in the gladly write what I discover and readers Dr. Noah Craft said it all. A visit to 200,000 children ages 9 to 16 from over room continued. The teams laughed, seem to look forward to reading about the website of VisualDx (www.visualdx. 70 countries explored the awe-inspiring clapped and line-danced as music blared storms, quakes, waves and more that we them whether the discovery is from the com) shows the positive reviews of over the speakers. I haven’t had that Philadelphia, Pa., January 11, 2014 -- Members of the Moravian Academy call natural disasters. Teams discovered much fun in a long time. Sin City or the Big Apple. users and customers. I realized how the Team assemble their robot prior to the completion of the competition. Photo For many years, Washington, D.C., app could be of great help to Profes- what can be done when intense natural (the nation’s capital) was a major source sionals and Institutions. The Profession- events meet the places people live, The Qualifying Tournament cham- by Mike Sharon/FEMA for my search for amazing technolo- als could be in the fi eld of Emergency work, and play. pions were That Other Team: Laura gies too. First, because of the Federal Medicine, Internal Medicine, Family Given the topic of this year’s chal- Dodds, Matt Lebermann, Charles light-hearted skit with characters from gain valuable insight and feedback from Government-sponsored conferences like Medicine, Pediatrics, Dermatology, lenge, FLL reached out to FEMA Cote, Ian Beazley, CJ Stiles, and Kaity the Wizard of Oz. Their project pro- professionals in the fi eld for which they FOSE, GovSec, Mobile Government, Dentistry/Oral Medicine, Student/Resi- Region III to see if any emergency O'Hanlon. The team is from the Univer- posal was extremely impressive while were improvising these solutions. and Cyber Security, which I also attend. dent, Medical Librarian or CMIO. management experts would be interested sity Scholars Program in West Chester, still being fun (an FLL core value). We It was a great experience for me--a Second, because of the mHealth Sum- To be more effective and effi cient, I in volunteering as judges for a Qualify- Pennsylvania, and is part of the Pennsyl- wish That Other Team and all the other judge—too. It was a chance to have mit Conference that is also held here see how VisualDx could be benefi cial to ing Tournament scheduled for Saturday vania Leadership Charter School. That qualifying teams the best of luck as they a positive impact on potential future annually. institutions like Hospitals/Health Sys- January 11 at the Franklin Institute in Other Team’s project proposal was for a continue the competition. emergency managers, and the solutions In the latest mHealth conference there Philadelphia, PA. mobile app that would use the baromet- I can’t imagine a better winter Satur- they proposed for real world problems was one app that I considered so amaz- (Continued on page 15) Interested? Of course I was! Legos ric pressure sensors now being included day than spending time with a young reminded me that there is a younger ing that I even called it a “miracle medi- and Emergency Management are two in many smartphones to improve and people who were really excited to fi nd generation out there looking up to us, cal tool”. While the app seems to be of my all-time favorite things. I quickly localize tornado warnings now broad- creative solutions for real world emer- wanting to be just like us one day. That’s simple, it actually becomes magical and Friends, family beat submitted my name, attended training, cast by other sources. The team had gency management problems caused by pretty cool. As were the Legos! mind-boggling when applied - benefi t- and excitedly awaited the opportunity clearly done their homework and done nature. The exposure and experience (Editor's note: We are providing links ing both the health providers or medical to see what the teams had devised. Our it well. They understood the tornado they gained by working through these and references to third party sites and community and the patients. out housing pros as Regional Administrator, MaryAnn threat, had looked at how tornado warn- issues in their teams allowed them to organizations for your reference. FEMA The app is called “VisualDx”. It is a Tierney, had also planned to participate ings were issued and explored current not only learn more about the science does not endorse any non-government medical tool that provides “diagnostic fi rst stop for hous- but couldn’t do so that weekend since and emerging technologies. Best of all, and engineering needed to devise such entities, organizations or services.) information on a wide range of adult Region III was activated in response to a they started off their presentation with a solutions, but they also were able to Source: http://www.fema.gov/blog and pediatric conditions, including oph- ing information thalmology, oral medicine, radiology, infectious disease, pediatrics and many California Association of Realtors | other specialties.” It also covers all ages 12/5/2013 -- The average home buyer FLL or FIRST LEGO League: What is it? and skin colors with more than 30,000 looks to friends and family fi rst when pictures. gathering information on the home-buy- How does one describe some- spreading the word about Recognizing its signifi cance as an ef- ing process, ahead of real estate agents thing so indescribable? FLL, fective medical tool and great source for by more than two to one and mortgage The best way to summarize using our past Challenges diagnostic information, medical students lenders by more than four to one, ac- FIRST LEGO League is to say that to help train new teams from Harvard and UPenn voted it as one cording to the latest homeownership it is a robotics program for 9 to and volunteers, of the Top Five Apps. survey from NeighborWorks America. 16 year olds (9 to 14 in US/CAN/ following us on It has also received several honors: The NeighborWorks America survey MEX), which is designed to get Twitter, As a Category Leader in the Clinical found that 39 percent of people thinking children excited about science and subscribe to our Decision Support – Referential category of buying a home fi rst seek advice from technology -- and teach them valu- channel on YouTube, in the 2012 and 2011 Best in KLAS friends and family who own their home, able employment and life skills. becoming a correspondent Awards and the Pride Institute’s “Best of while agents and mortgage lenders are FLL can be used in a classroom on our blog, Class” Dental Technology Award. approached just 16 and 9 percent of setting but is not solely designed for sponsoring the global FLL Licensed by more than half the na- the time, respectively. Interestingly, the this purpose. Teams, composed of program or the efforts in your up to ten children with at least one adult surface, creating an innovative solution Some teams choose to attend an offi - local region, tion’s medical schools and more than Internet is the second-most-used source to a problem as part of their project, all cial FLL tournament, which is hosted by 1,500 hospitals, its pictures have gener- of homeownership information at 17 coach, can also be associated with a or by simply making a donation. pre-existing club or organization, home- while being guided by the FLL Core one of our Operational Partners. Opera- With over 20,000+ teams in over 70 ated 50 million image views from users percent. Although friends and family are Values. These three elements - the Robot tional Partners volunteer to run the FLL in 2013 alone. This validates its need the preferred fi rst choice for advice, 75 schooled, or just be a group of friends countries, FLL is constantly expanding. who wish to do something awesome. Game, Project, and FLL Core Values program in their region or country and If you are interested in helping create and benefi cial contribution to the users percent of Americans agreed (42 percent - make up what we call our yearly Chal- are associated with other like-minded and also my assertion that it is a great strongly) that the home-buying process Contrary to popular belief, our a formal FLL presence in your area by coaches DO NOT need any technical lenge. Like any other organized “sport”, organizations to the FIRST mission. becoming an Operational Partner, please app that should be known and shared. is complicated. Young home buyers teams also fundraise, create a team iden- Support our mission by: I must admit that I am not really the consider the home-buying process even experience. In FLL, the children do contact us at fl lteams@usfi rst.org. the work! And the work is program- tity, and go on fi eld trips. To see some of volunteering at an offi cial tournament, - See more at: http://www.fi rst- best judge to rate the app itself. I could more complicated, with 86 percent of our teams in action, visit our YouTube coaching a team, only see and notice its wonders. At the respondents under 30 years old agreeing ming an autonomous robot (using the legoleague.org/mission/support#sthash. LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robot set) Channel, or read about their experiences attending an event and cheering on fBvvDSE1.dpuf mHealth Summit Conference, I asked (60 percent strongly agreed). on our blog. our teams, Dr. Noah Craft, MD, PhD, DTM&H, to score points on a thematic playing who is the Chief Medical Offi cer for Logical Images, maker of VisualDx, this question, “why should VisualDx be considered a Miracle, Magic, Mind- The memories are yours.. Boggling?” But the moments are on us. 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(619) 474-0373 nice gesture,” he said. The UP System Board of Regents ap- Baldwin led the Standford Cardinals proved the shift in a meeting Thursday, in receiving yards and touchdowns and and will cover all constituent universi- he is hoping to do the same this Sunday. ties except for its fl agship campus in But the 25-year-old wide receiver who Diliman, Tinig ng Plaridel, the offi cial went undrafted out of Stanford said he student publication of the UP Diliman plays with a chip on his shoulder having College of Mass Communication, also been signed up for the Seattle Seahawks reported. as an undrafted agent. Other details pertaining to the shift “It’s not a chip. It’s a boulder, no it have yet to be released. The university doesn’t go away, because you will be will issue a statement in the afternoon, continuing to doubt whether it’s about UP Vice President for Public Affairs me or about my teammates. So that Prospero de Vera told Rappler in a text adds motivation to the boulder. It’s not message. so much to prove others wrong but it’s Initial proposals presented by the Uni- more proving ourselves right,” he said. versity already included implementation From Gulf Breeze High School to by academic year 2014-2015. Standford Cardinals star football player, In the case of UP Diliman, Tinig ng Baldwin said he is living his American Plaridel reported that a public consulta- dream right now playing at the 48th tion on the issue will be held on Febru- Superbowl. ary 10, whether the campus will also “It means a lot obviously. It’s been shift its calendar or not. a dream of mine since I put on pads to Back in January, de Vera said the rest play football. So to be here now, to be of the UP campuses and their chancel- able to experience this moment, enjoy lors are ready to implement the change the game of football at the highest level, this coming school year 2014-2015 it means the world to me. But my family “even if Diliman doesn't go.” gets to enjoy it as well. 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