<h2>We are about halfway through year 2 of our project and are wrapping up the app prototype testing!</h2>
Researchers at Michigan State University, along with Dr. Michael Wood from the University of Michigan, have developed an app for kids with type-1 diabetes.

The app is designed to help kids with T1D take on more responsibility for managing their diabetes care and allow their parents to take a step back from care.
<h3> Here is an overview of what we accomplished in year 1:</h3>
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 	<li>We held focus groups with kids ages 10-15 with T1D and their parents in order to get their feedback on our ideas and design of the mobile app.</li>
 	<li>This information helped our professional web development team create an app that kids with T1D and their parents will want to use!</li>
 	<li>We wrote a paper about our results from the focus groups. It is currently being reviewed, and we will post it here once it has been published.</li>
 	<li>We presented the results from the focus groups at the Partner's Connected Health Symposium in October! Check out the poster here: <a href="http://myt1d.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Partners-Connected-Poster-2016_Hortizontal_100616-2.pdf" target="_blank">partners-poster-2016</a>.</li>
 	<li>Recruitment for the prototype testing of the app has been completed.</li>
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<h3>Here is what to come:</h3>
Year 2:
<ol>
 	<li>We are testing the prototype of the mobile app with a small group of children and parents to see what changes need to be made to ensure successful use of the app.</li>
 	<li>We have presented the focus group data at a couple small conferences (see pictures below)</li>
 	<li>We have a paper about our focus group results that is almost ready to be published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research!</li>
</ol>
[caption id="attachment_659" align="alignnone" width="221"]<img class="wp-image-659 " src="http://myt1d.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Trifecta-Event-e1492182803766-300x242.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="179" /> Member of our research team, Katie Murray, presented the findings from our MyT1DHero app focus groups at the Trifecta Initiative Research Roundup![/caption]

[caption id="attachment_660" align="alignnone" width="220"]<img class="wp-image-660" src="http://myt1d.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_7366-300x240.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="176" /> Undergraduate student and member of our research team, Molly Kaiser, presented the findings from our MyT1DHero app focus groups at the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF).[/caption]

Year 3:
<ol>
 	<li>We will test the app with a larger group of children and parents to assess each of our variables of interest.</li>
</ol>
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