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Editor\u2019s Note: This is part of our Good on the Ground series<\/a>, profiling entrepreneurial women who are addressing social issues in innovative and inspiring ways.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

If it weren\u2019t for the quirky appeal of NASA pajamas, Tish Scolnik might not be doing the important work she\u2019s doing today — which is designing the mountain bike of wheelchairs. <\/span><\/p>\n

Scolnik, 27, is the CEO of GRIT<\/a>, a Boston startup that began life 10 years ago as a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research project. Scolnik and her former MIT classmates, Mario Bollini and Ben Judge, make the Freedom Chair, an all-terrain wheelchair originally designed to navigate the rough ground in East African villages. They now sell the Freedom Chair in the U.S., where it\u2019s marketed as a $2,995 sports device that allows people with disabilities to access a hiking trail or sandy beach. Just this past September, they won a contract with the Veterans Administration to supply the chair to vets. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Reinventing the Wheelchair<\/h2>

Listen to our podcast episode for more of our interview with Tish Scolnik.<\/h3>

It\u2019s no secret that the so-called STEM fields — the acronym stands for science, engineering, mathematics and technology — are dominated by men. A 2015 <\/span>report <\/span><\/a>from the National Student Clearinghouse found that 81 percent of engineering degrees go to men, a number that hasn\u2019t changed in a decade. Research suggests that society places a subtle but strong pressure on young girls to choose more \u201cfeminine\u201d areas like the humanities, instead of the more \u201cmasculine\u201d fields like STEM. (Many <\/span>blame<\/span><\/a> the personal computer industry, which focused its early 1980s advertising efforts on boys.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite supportive parents, Scolnik wasn\u2019t immune to the pressure. While she says she was a \u201ctom boy\u201d in high school — she played tennis, soccer, softball and basketball — she was an extrovert who served as class president and even helped plan Senior Prom. She tried to keep it under wraps that she was also a member of the Science Olympiad. The day her team\u2019s gold medal — and all team members\u2019 names — were announced on the loudspeaker, \u201cI remember being, like, slightly mortified,\u201d she recalls. <\/span><\/p>\n

But driven by an interest in science, she signed up for \u201cIntro to Engineering,\u201d a new course her senior year. \u201cI was the only girl in the class,\u201d she says. \u201cI convinced my best friend Krista to join with me so that I would have some company.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward to the campus visit at MIT. \u201cYou know, I think I just had that terrible stereotype\u201d — think nerdy guys in broken glasses — \u201cand that I wouldn\u2019t fit in,\u201d she says. But then she attended an info session, \u201cand I was totally mesmerized by the young woman who was giving it.\u201d The student talked about everything, Scolnik says, from extracurricular activities to \u201cher NASA pajamas that she was so excited to proudly put on at night with her sorority sisters.\u201d Scolnik was hooked.<\/p>\n

Social encouragement is a key part of motivating girls to pursue STEM fields, research has found. Two years ago, Google poured $50 million into \u201cMade With Code,\u201d a website that seeks to right the gender imbalance by providing resources for parents, coding projects for girls and video stories from female tech role models. The tech giant, through its own extensive research, has found that girls are more influenced than boys by social pressure, and pervasive stereotyping has steered many young women away from tech careers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Beating Boys With Glitter<\/b><\/p>\n

At MIT, Scolnik says she largely found a supportive environment but did need to band together with other women at times. In one mechanical engineering class, she struggled with a soldering iron, which the male students were using to build robots. \u201cI said that I had never done this before, and all I got was chuckles,\u201d she says. \u201cNobody offered to help, nobody offered to show me how it worked, and I was too embarrassed that I basically just stormed out.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately for Scolnik, a few of her sorority sisters were in the class. \u201cIn a somewhat act of defiance,\u201d she says, they joined forces for a class competition and built a robot covered \u201cin glitter, so that when we beat the boys they would be beat by glitter bots.\u201d They lost. It turned out, \u201cif we\u2019d known how to solder we would\u2019ve done a little better,\u201d she says. <\/span><\/p>\n

By spring semester Scolnik had stumbled upon an ad for a class called \u201cWheelchair Design in Developing Countries.\u201d While she had originally planned to be pre-med, she found herself racing to get to the class. \u201cMy group was partnered with a small wheelchair workshop in Tanzania,\u201d she says. \u201cWe would Skype with them and email with them to learn about the problems they were facing, and try to provide whatever sort of help we could with our basic engineering skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scolnik visited Tanzania with her MIT classmates the following year, learning more about the difficulties faced by wheelchair users there. \u201cPeople needed to go really long distances, to get to work or to school,\u201d she says, often on rough terrain. \u201cAnd they needed something that they could repair and maintain in the long term.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Her team came up with a solution: A wheelchair that uses standard bicycle parts, so it could be repaired easily and locally. The team also re-thought how a person could push the chair. \u201cA regular wheelchair is propelled by grabbing onto the wheels and pushing those forward,\u201d she says. \u201cThe Freedom Chair uses a lever system. It\u2019s easier to push.\u201d<\/p>\n

She spent the rest of her time at MIT developing the chair, and in 2012, two years after graduation, incorporated GRIT with classmates Bollini and Judge and instructor Amos Winter.<\/span><\/p>\n

To date, the startup has worked with agencies and NGOs to distribute about 2,000 chairs to 20 developing countries. \u201cWhile that was happening, we started hearing from wheelchair riders here in the United States, who said…we want something that\u2019s rugged and easy to repair, too,\u201d Scolnik says. The team<\/span> designed a recreational version of the chair for the U.S. market, and has shipped more than 200 to U.S. customers. GRIT has also secured two $100,000 grants — including one from MIT\u2019s <\/span>D-Lab Scale-Ups Program<\/span><\/a> — and in 2015 raised a seed round from angel investors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scolnik says she\u2019s glad she attended MIT and pursued a career in engineering. \u201cThere are so many big problems that the world is facing,\u201d she says. \u201cMany of them can\u2019t be solved by engineering — but many of them can.\u201d<\/p>\n

She no longer has inhibitions about science, and is working with her mother on a book aimed at getting middle school-aged girls excited about STEM fields, she says. \u201cNow I have no problem letting that nerd flag fly freely.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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Tish Skolnik \u2013 CEO \u2013 GRIT \u2013 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA<\/p>\n

TISH:\tHere at GRIT we\u2019re making the mountain bike of wheelchairs.<\/p>\n

SOT:\tYeah!<\/p>\n

TISH:\tOur Freedom Chair is specially designed to help users travel on really rough terrain, whether that\u2019s a hiking trail, or through thick grass, or on the beach.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tTish Skolnik \u2013 CEO + Co-Founder \u2013 GRIT \u2013 Cambridge, Mass., USA<\/p>\n

TISH:\tThere are so many big problems that the world\u2019s facing and many of them can\u2019t be solved by engineering, but many of them can. There are millions of people that could benefit from a product like ours.<\/p>\n

SOT:\tIt\u2019s nice to be able to just change direction and go where you want.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tTish grew up in Westchester, New York. Her parents ran their own graphic design company.<\/p>\n

TISH:\tIt was actually, uh, pretty fortuitous for me growing up having both a working mom and a working dad, uh, and seeing them running their own business. I guess it always kind of seemed like I could do this. I could run my own company.<\/p>\n

TISH:\tI\u2019d always been good at math and science. My dad was the one who wanted me to look at MIT. We came and toured MIT and I remember that I didn\u2019t wanna get out of the car. I think I just had that terrible stereotype that it would be full of...nerds and that I wouldn\u2019t fit in. I don't know what I was thinking. Now I have no problem letting that nerd flag fly freely.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tTish planned to study pre-med at MIT.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tBut during her first year, she also signed up for a class called \u201cWheelchair Design in Developing Countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

TISH:\tThat same semester I was also taking, uh, organic chemistry and I found myself totally disinterested and really racing to be on time to the wheelchair class every time, every day.<\/p>\n

TISH:\tMy group was partnered with a small wheelchair workshop in Tanzania in East Africa and we would Skype and email with them and try to provide whatever sort of help we could with our, our basic engineering skills.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tTish spent the next summer working in Tanzania at the workshop.<\/p>\n

TISH:\tPeople needed to go really long distances to get to work or to school, oftentimes in rural areas. When they got to work, or school, or the office they needed to be able to go indoors and still be maneuverable. And they needed something that, that they could actually repair and maintain in the long term. And so all of the moving parts are standard bicycle parts. The need to be able to repair it locally was really clear to us.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tAll through college, Tish worked on the design with fellow students Mario Bellini, Ben Judge and their teacher Amos Winter.<\/p>\n

TISH:\tThe key innovation behind the Chair is the way you push it. So a regular wheelchair is propelled by grabbing onto the wheels and pushing those forward. The Freedom Chair uses a lever system.<\/p>\n

SOT:\tActuating correctly.<\/p>\n

TISH: The levers give you a lot more leverage so it\u2019s easier to push.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tIn 2011, a year after graduating from MIT, Tish decided to make the chair as her full-time career. In 2012 she set up GRIT with Amos, Mario and Ben.<\/p>\n

TISH:\tWhen we started GRIT, all of us mechanical engineers, there were a lot of things we had to learn. There are a lot of skills we had to pick up on the fly from accounting, to finance, to patent law, to sales and marketing.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tThe biggest challenge was money. Tish and Mario pursued grants, prizes, Kickstarter campaigns and investment funding.<\/p>\n

TISH:\tWe started working with a manufacturer in India and distributing the product through agencies and NGOs around the world, to date, about 2,000 chairs in almost 20 countries. While that was happening we started hearing from wheelchair riders here in the United States who said, \u201cWe want something that\u2019s rugged and easy to repair, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tThe team redesigned the chair for the American market. They made it easy to fold and put in a car.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tIt is sold direct to consumers for $2995, which is less than half the price of their closest competitors.<\/p>\n

TISH:\tAs a small team with limited resources being pulled in so many different directions it\u2019s really hard. We\u2019re talking to folks that we might be able to, to partner with overseas to help grow that work. And also we really wanna put the time and effort into growing what we\u2019re doing here in the US.<\/p>\n

TEXT:\tGRIT has sold more than 200 chairs to US customers and landed a contract with the Veterans Administration for more.<\/p>\n

SOT:\tThen we have that trail ride with the VA. See how, how this trail, what this trail is like and maybe it\u2019s time we add it to our accessible trail series.<\/p>\n

TEXT: Tish and her colleagues now take small salaries.<\/p>\n

TISH:\tOur riders, they\u2019re all over. They\u2019re leaving their own footprints in the sand when the tire tracks are, are left behind. That\u2019s what makes us wanna keep doing this is, is hearing those stories and seeing that, that impact firsthand.<\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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