ANDREA DEROSIER: Hi there.
My name's Andrea Derosier, and I'm a Sloan fellow,
as I mentioned earlier.
And my pitch idea is actually having
to do with something that I actually
know something a little bit about,
that many high school or middle schoolers also struggle with,
and that is, having braces.
I just recently got my braces off,
and I also worked for a orthodontics company
before I came here to MIT.
So it's something that's both near and dear to my heart,
and also I think I've seen a lot of high schoolers and middle
schoolers struggle with this whole process.
I know I didn't know a lot about it.
So basically, that would be my pitch,
is to teach kids about what's happening with their teeth,
as they're having braces on.
How the teeth move; how osteoblasts and osteoclasts
work, to deposit and dissolve some of their bone, which
is actually one of the reasons why it hurts so much;
and also why your mouth gets dry.
All those kinds of scientific aspects
is something that these kids really
deal with on a daily basis during a very
awkward time of their lives.
So that's my mini-pitch.