2010 Fast-Track (Phase I and II) SBIR Awards

Common Ground Publishing, LLC
Champaign, IL
Principal Investigator: Bill Cope
Title: The Learning Element: A lesson planning and curriculum documentation tool for teachers

Common Ground Publishing, LLC
Champaign, IL
Principal Investigator: Bill Cope
Title: u-learn.net: An anywhere/anytime formative assessment and learning feedback environment

Filament Games
Madison, WI
Principal Investigator: Dan White
Title: Game-based interactive life science for students with learning disabilities

Insight Learning Technology, Inc.
Pacific Palisades, CA
Principal Investigator: Timothy Burke
Title: Perceptual and adaptive learning technologies: developing products to improve algebra learning.

Mindset Works, LLC
New York, NY
Principal Investigator: Lisa Sorich Blackwell
Title: Growth mindset learning platform

One Planet Education Network (OPEN), LLC
Scituate, MA
Principal Investigator: George Newman
Title: OPEN's virtual national parks 3D learning environment for science and social studies: Low-cost, easy to implement curriculums

NIDRR FY 2010 SBIR Phase II Grants

Orthocare Innovations, LLC
Mountlake Terrace, WA
Principal Investigator: Chaubey, Pravin
Title: Haptic feedback improvements for prostheses II

Motion Control, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
Principal Investigator: Sears, Harold
Title: A new electro-hydraulic foot prosthesis

Criterion Health, Inc.
Terre Haute, IN
Principal Investigator: Levy, Robert
Title: Variable position mid wheel drive system for power wheelchairs

CreateAbility Concepts, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
Principal Investigator: Sutter, Stephen
Title: VisionARI – Vision assisting resources for independence in finding and identifying objects and navigating environments for people who are blind or visually impaired

Applicant: Aspen Systems, Inc.
Marlborough, MA
Principal Investigator: Lovell, Thomas
Title: Personal cooling to mitigate heat stress and heat exacerbated symptoms to enable more active lifestyles for multiple sclerosis patients