*A Haitian American graduate student is putting $100,000 toward a medical translation system designed to keep families from waiting hours for care.*

Samuel Marseille, a WMU graduate student studying international development administration, won both the $25,000 public vote prize and the $75,000 judges prize in the inaugural Cultivate 269 pitch competition on April 10.

His company OneShot AI is billed as the first HIPAA-compliant translation system that combines artificial intelligence with human interpreters.

Marseille built the product after witnessing a situation at a hospital where a mother and son waited five hours to get care while staff waited for a French interpreter.

"I had five missed calls from a hospital," Marseille said. "A mom and a son waiting for five hours to get care while staff were waiting for a French interpreter. I built a product to make sure this does not happen to any other family."

Marseille is an international student from Haiti who speaks four languages including French, Spanish, English and Haitian Creole.

OneShot AI currently translates Spanish, Arabic, French, Haitian Creole, Kinyarwanda, Swahili, Pashto, Farsi, Burmese and Telugu. Users can request a human interpreter at any time.