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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 352 Commending AmityConnections.

 

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, March 2, 2020 Agreed to by the Senate, March 4, 2020  

WHEREAS, AmityConnections, which developed a mobile application to connect family members with the health of their elders, won the 2019 T-Mobile Changemaker Challenge; and

WHEREAS, AmityConnections was established by Kushi Sethuram and Karthik Ramu, students at Loudoun County’s Academy of Engineering and Technology, as part of a dual-enrollment entrepreneurship class; and

WHEREAS, concerned for the safety and wellness of their grandparents and other senior residents of Loudoun County, Kushi Sethuram and Karthik Ramu formulated an idea to gather health data from existing smart medical devices used by seniors into one convenient interface for family members to use; and

WHEREAS, AmityConnections and its mobile platform, AmityConnect, was created with expert input from local medical professionals and health care companies; the founders entered several competitions to raise awareness of the organization, which was ultimately selected from more than 400 applicants to the T-Mobile Changemaker Challenge; and

WHEREAS, as winners of the T-Mobile Changemaker Challenge, Kushi Sethuram and Karthik Ramu received $2,000 in seed funding for AmityConnections and an opportunity to meet with mentors at T-Mobile Headquarters in Bellevue, Washington; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby commend AmityConnections on its selection as one of 30 winning teams in the 2019 T-Mobile Changemaker Challenge; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Kushi Sethuram and Karthik Ramu, founders of AmityConnections, as an expression of the General Assembly’s admiration for their innovative work to increase the health and wellness of senior members of the community.