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Team project

Thermal Suture

Sports Medicine · Orthopedics

Heated-filament education lab: train the rupture, hold tension off the wound line, and learn the craft before it ever meets a patient. Built for founders who treat sports medicine like a game plan — not a clinic, not a pitch slide.

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.

AV

Ada Voss

Founder · Student · open-enrollment

AP

Asha Patel

Founder · Student · FSU

IO

Ife Okonkwo

Founder · Student · FAMU

JP

Jun Park

Founder · Student · Miami

LC

Li Chen

Founder · Student · UF

MH

Maya Hale

Founder · Student · USF

MP

Min Paek

Founder · Student · open-enrollment

RD

Rio Diaz

Founder · Student · UCF

SR

Sol Rivera

Founder · Student · open-enrollment

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 Thermal Suture 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.