{"id":6839,"date":"2025-10-31T16:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/?page_id=6839"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:21:01","slug":"macstartup-feature-ellie-corbett-26","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/macstartup-feature-ellie-corbett-26\/","title":{"rendered":"MacStartup Feature Ellie Corbett \u201926"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fall 2025 Newsletter<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Frustrated Moment Leads to an Innovative Idea<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When biology major Ellie Corbett \u201926 saw students struggling with a simple organic chemistry test, she was inspired to find a better way. Ellie, a budding scientist, noticed a common frustration during Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) testing. Driven by a desire to make chemistry more accessible, Ellie set out to find a solution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March 2025, she took her concept to MacStartups, a 10-week summer program that helps students turn ideas into reality. During the program, Ellie honed her understanding for defining her problem, ideal customer, and product value. She also built a 3-D printer to produce the solution: The Easel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellie followed the MacStartups process, moving from inspiration and ideation to research and prototyping. Her final pitch highlighted the product&#8217;s practical innovation potential for more accuracy and to help countless chemistry students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"video-embed block-container\" >\n\t    <div class=\"video-embed__container\">\n    \t<div class=\"embed-container\">\n    \t    \t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This 3D printed tool revolutionizes lab work\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5S22IZedQ28?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \n    \t<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall 2025 Newsletter A Frustrated Moment Leads to an Innovative Idea When biology major Ellie Corbett \u201926 saw students struggling with a simple organic chemistry test, she was inspired to find a better way. Ellie, a budding scientist, noticed a common frustration during Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) testing. Driven by a desire to make chemistry [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":893,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6839","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6849,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6839\/revisions\/6849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}