Build Sep 29, 2026, 5:58 PM ET · version 51f955b

Team project

Rib Splint

Tampa, FL

Adhesive patches and elastic straps. Fit and materials under study — no healing-outcome claims.

All six seats are taken right now.

The Capstone

The Capstone this team completes

Every student on this team finishes a Capstone: the plan, the numbers, the research, what the team built and the pitch. It is filed in the team's own Capstone room, where registered participants and donors can read it.

The team has not written its project sections yet.

The lab

Who is already on this team

A CFL lab seats six co-equal founders — one unique person per seat, not one founder with five spectators. All six seats are taken right now.

AC

Avery Cole

Founder · Student · open-enrollment

CJ

Chris Jordan

Founder · Student · FSU

DO

Dana Ortiz

Founder · Student · USF

KN

Kim Nguyen

Founder · Student · FIU

LT

Lee Tran

Founder · Student · open-enrollment

NM

Noel Maya

Founder · Student · UCF

RE

Remy Ellis

Founder · Student · open-enrollment

SR

Sam Reed

Founder · Student · FAU

TB

Tate Brooks

Founder · Student · UF

The seat

What you would actually be doing

A season is ten weeks. You are a co-equal founder from the first week, and you keep the company at the end of it.

  1. 1

    Sit the lab

    Six founders, one seat each. You do not need to arrive with the idea — this project already has one. You need the hours.

  2. 2

    Move the ball

    Verified work earns Business Performance Points. Coaches score seats 0–100 for Game Day readiness — not a grade, not a valuation.

  3. 3

    Game Day

    The six of you present what you actually filed. CFL takes nothing off the cap table. No equity grab at the finish line.

Six-person labTen weeks of coachingA stadiumA certificate

You keep the company. CFL takes no equity.

Where it stands

Current traction

This team has not posted traction yet, and we would rather show you nothing than show you a number nobody earned. Advancement runs on the fairness model: verified work earns Business Performance Points, and rankings stay educational — not investment advice.

Votes are cheers, not financial endorsements. Donors fund the educational ecosystem; they do not buy yards.

The other door

Interested in the technology, not the team?

If you run a business and want to bring this technology into your own products, that is a licensing conversation, not a roster application. It does not apply to join Rib Splint or any CFL team.

The other labs

Not this one? Sit another.

Every project runs the same season on the same terms. If this one is not your field, one of these may be — or bring your own.