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2023 Bio-Med Tech-Girls

The Bio-Med Tech-Girls program is a unique collaboration between Charlottesville Women in Tech, the department of Biomedical Engineering, the School of Education, and the School of Engineering at the University of Virginia. The program is all about providing inspiration, community building and hands-on computer science (CS) and biomedical engineering (BME) activities for young women in high school, so they can get a glimpse of the vast opportunities available in these fields.

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 in 2016. 

2023 Schedule Overview

Monday
UVA BME
  • Welcome from Shayn Peirce-Cottler, UVA BME Department Chair
  • What is CS?
  • Robot Zine
  • UVA student lunch panel
  • Game Controller Design Challenge
  • Programming Cells
  • UVA students: Gokce, Mackenzie, Gabi & Mahi
Tuesday
UVA BME
Wednesday
UVA BME
  • What is Design Thinking?
  • Blemker Lab (Megan, Matt & Jacob)
  • Civelek Lab (Yoni, Bilge, Lexi, Ashlyn, Lilly)
  • Design challenge: Intro
  • UVA students: Natasha & Lexi
Thursday
UVA SEHD Design Lab
  • Guest Speaker: Eileen Krepkovich
  • Lunch with UVA SWE
  • Design challenge: prototyping
  • UVA students: Darrah & Kimball
Friday
UVA SEHD Design Lab
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering Lab tours (Ryan)
  • Demo party
  • UVA students: Natasha & Lexi

Many thanks!!!

Bio-Med Tech-Girls is possible because of the generous support of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) department and School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) at UVA along with and Charlottesville Women in Tech sponsors. We are also very thankful for David Chen, Hannah Moore, and the myriad of UVA faculty, staff and students that join us to share their time and passion about solving problems through BME and CS with us!
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