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2020 Bio-Med Tech-Girls online!

23 young women from all over the U.S. joined the 7th annual Bio-Med Tech-Girls online! This program is a collaboration between the UVA Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), St. Anne's-Belfield School and Charlottesville Women in Tech. This year the week was filled with guest speakers, hands-on activities and a design challenge focused on the Go Viral Project developed by Dr. Jeff Saucerman and Dr. Shayn Peirce-Cottler from UVA BME.

In the News

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​​​​​Check out this episode of Charlottesville Inside-Out (starts as 13:30), when Terri Allard and her crew spent the day with Tech-Girls founder, Kim Wilkens during the Bio-Med Tech-Girls program this past summer. 

2020 Schedule Highlights

Monday
  • Intro to BME (Sruthi, Julie & David Chen)
  • Intro to CS and Programming Cells challenge (Kim Wilkens, Noelle & Aditi)
  • Intro to Go Viral Project (Dr. Jeff Saucerman)
  • Empathy Talk (Julie, Sruthi, Sydney & David)
Tuesday
Wednesday
  • Mock Town Hall Meeting about COVID-19 (Sruthi & Sydney)
  • Graduate Student Panel Discussion (Bonnie, Delaney, Julie & Mukti)
  • Brainstorming 101 (Rachel Smith, Doctoral Candidate at MIT Media Lab)
Thursday
  • Project pitches
  • Intro to scrum & project planning (Kim & Noelle)
  • Gut Intelligence Lab (Dr. Sana Syed)
  • Project work
Friday
  • Project work
  • Presentation prep
  • Demo Party Livestream

Many thanks!!!

Bio-Med Tech-Girls is possible because of the generous support of the UVA BME department, St. Anne's-Belfield School, and Charlottesville Women in Tech sponsors. We are also very thankful for David Chen and the myriad of UVA faculty, staff and students he recruits to share their time and passion about solving problems through biomedical engineering with us!
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