{"id":360,"date":"2026-04-10T18:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/?p=360"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:03:17","slug":"occupational-therapy-innovation-in-action-%f0%9f%92%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/2026\/04\/10\/occupational-therapy-innovation-in-action-%f0%9f%92%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupational Therapy innovation in action \ud83d\udc99"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to <strong>Olivia Jackson<\/strong>, occupational therapy student at UM-Flint, for her outstanding work in the Zillion Solutions Competition. Olivia was recognized for her idea, <em>Lymphedema Hand Garment and App<\/em>, and awarded $350 for her innovative approach to improving patient care and accessibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work reflects the creativity, compassion, and problem-solving that define the field of occupational therapy, as well as the impact our students are making beyond the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 Watch Olivia\u2019s finalist video<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zillion Solutions 2026 Finalist, Olivia Jackson\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xVHi1Uop1lM?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<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We are proud to see our OT students leading with innovation and purpose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to the Hagerman Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and everyone involved in supporting and celebrating student innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Olivia Jackson, occupational therapy student at UM-Flint, for her outstanding work in the Zillion Solutions Competition. Olivia was recognized for her idea, Lymphedema Hand Garment and App, and awarded $350 for her innovative approach to improving patient care and accessibility. Her work reflects the creativity, compassion, and problem-solving that define the field of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,47,41,18,21,44],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student","tag-college-of-health-sciences","tag-hagermancenter","tag-occupational-therapy","tag-research","tag-student","tag-zillionsolutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}