Students utilized the Denney Research Center’s BME Maker Space to work on their product prototyping
They had only 36 hours, across three days, to create a device that detects or prevents falls among the elderly.
By Sunday morning, the nine exhausted teams were barely upright themselves. Their Super Bowl? A final presentation that night that saw the winning team, The Brainy Bunch, take home the $750 prize.
This past weekend marked the 8th annual Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering’s Make-a-Thon. This year’s intensive competition over February 10-12 was the first in three years to be held entirely in person, with competing students having access to the Denney Research Center and the Baum Family Maker Space and collaborative workshops hosted by two other USC Viterbi student organizations who reside in the space. USC’s premier 3D printing club, 3D4E, and USC Makers…
