2017 Big Bang! Business Competition: Finalists Vie for up to $67,000 in Prizes

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My son, Theodore A. Lee’s medical device start-up, AssistENT, made it to the finals in the UC Davis Big Bang Business Plan Competition!!! AssistENT is developing a comfortable and discreet nasal dilator designed to facilitate breathing. The company was founded through a partnership between student engineers in the Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID), and Dr. Patrick J. Byrne, the Dir. of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at Johns Hopkins.

Motherhood & Hanging On

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by Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim

July 15, 2012, I dropped off my oldest child (13 years old) at the Johns Hopkins University CTY-gifted Summer Program at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA for a three week program.  This is his fourth year in the program but his first time enrolled as a residential student.

In so many ways, I was waiting for this moment. I was waiting for this moment to come for the past 13 years of raising my children, the moment of dropping off my kid somewhere so that I don’t have to worry about feeding, clothing, or disciplining them. I have been dreaming of dropping off a child so that I will be free for at least 3 weeks….at least one child less….which is a lot easier than having all three at home.