Benjamin Landolina’s reading level as a junior in high school in 2002 went down to the level of a fifth-grader.

According to Landolina, his cognitive issues were the result of concussions sustained while playing hockey. It ended his playing career, and he said it caused him to miss a year at Pine Bush High School. Landolina’s experience inspired him to create a concussion alerting mouthguard called Capshock, which is designed to make sports safer for athletes of all levels.

Capshock uses a built-in capsule that changes color when an athlete sustains a potentially concussive impact.

“My family has a lot of successful entrepreneurs in it, and I think my love of problem solving is why I created Capshock,” said Landolina, 19, an engineering student at SUNY Orange, who co-founded Capshock wi

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